﻿182 PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. 



" ' Very good,' said Haraos. 



" The hunter was accordingly brought to Cairo, where his eye 

 was thrust out. The responsibility by Mohammed Ali is nothing 

 else what I can't pay, my neighbor must. In this way we are 

 both ruined at the same time." 



Old Ponto. 



MORE than two hundred years ago, there lived in a delightful part 

 of England a gentleman named Morton, with his wife and their only 

 son. Mr. Morton was wealthy, and knew how to employ his wealth 

 to the advantage of those around him, as well as for himself; and 

 many a poor family looked to him and his wife as their benefactors 

 and protectors. He lived in a large and handsome house, surround- 

 ed by pleasure grounds laid out in the elaborate style of those days, 

 with trees and shrubs, clipped into the forms of dragons, peacocks, 

 elephants, and a variety of similar forms. 



Little Henry Morton, who, as I have said, was the only child of 

 this worthy couple, was tended during his infancy and earliest child- 

 hood with all the assiduity \vhich commonly awaits the children of 

 the rich. Everything which was thought conducive to his pleasure 

 and comfort was procured, and his fond parents tried to anticipate 

 every wish. Thus the boy was in imminent danger of being spoiled 

 by too much indulgence, as a great many little boys are, who might 

 otherwise have been good and useful members of society. But an 

 event occurred, when Henry was in his fifth year, which was the 

 means of preserving him from the effects of this injudicious treat- 

 ment. 



At the period of which I write, there was a great excitement 

 throughout England on account of a band of men, of whom I hope 

 you have all heard, called the Puritans. These glorious sufferers 

 for Christ's sake were people who had become disgusted with the 

 narrow bigotry of the religion almost universal in England, and in 

 which every person was commanded by law to believe. Such a law, 

 as you will easily perceive, was unjust and tyrannical ; and the Puri- 

 tans, being few and weak, resolved to fly from the persecution which 



