Across one end of our orchard flows a pretty little brook buddling [sic] and babbling thro a small romantic dingle to empty itself into the Wye; in which with
hobbyhorsical industry I have built a cascade of 8 or 9 feet height & am making a rude hermitage (a sequestered summer study) in the dingle beneath.
As a result, enthusiasm for these
hobbyhorsical technologies has waned, as both the results and implications of such techniques proved to be largely disappointing.
We need not hunt after monstrous Telescopes, unless it be in the true
hobbyhorsical spirit, for the sake of the Pleasure arising from the Trouble of using them.