Excerpt from The Blind Child, or Anecdotes of the Wyndham Family: Written for the Use of Young People Mr. Wyndham, of Whose family I. Am about to relate some Anecdotes, was an eminent merchant. He married an am1able woman, by whom he had four children. Their residence, during the winter, was in one of the best streets in the city of Long, and in the summer months, at his fine es e in the country, on which he had built an elegant house, and where the riches his industry, and that of his father, had gained, were partly em ployed ln decorating his grounds, and partly distributed with a liberal hand among the neighbouring poor. But it is not of Mr. Wyndham only I mean to speak, though his benevolence, his probity, ' and various virtues, might Well employ a more able historian than myself. It is true, he will sometimes appear to great montage in the followingran: blind onus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.