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PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. 



An honest Creole, whose only crime consisted in possessing 'the 

 inheritance of his ancestors, was denounced as inimical to the re 

 public, and sentenced to die with a crowd of his fellow-countrymen. 

 But happily for this virtuous colonist, he was the father of a little 

 girl, eminently endowed with courage, energy, and affection; and 

 when the moment of separation from his family arrived, this cour- 

 ageous child resolved to follow and share his sufferings; however 

 terrible to her tender age. In vain did the father entreat his little 

 Annette to remain at home, and the mother, with streaming eyes, 

 seek to retain her child by force. Entreaties and commands were 

 equally unavailing, and, rushing from the door, she continued to 

 follow, at a little distance, the rough men who urged her unhappy 

 father to the place of execution. Small time sufficed to place him 

 in the foremost rank of the condemed ; his eyes were blinded, and 

 his hands tied together, while the executioners made ready those 

 murderous engines which were soon to open a heavy fire of grape- 

 shot upon the crowds who awaited their death in silence. 





But suddenly a little girl sprang forward, and her voice, tremu- 

 lous with emotion, uttered the piercing cry of- - " Oh ! my father, 

 my father ! " The lookers on endeavored to snatch her from de- 



