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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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Mr.
West
recommended
him
to
stay,
since
the
rules
of
the
competition
required
the
winner
to
receive
the
prize
in
person.
But
after
trying
in
vain
to
get
this
regulation
waived,
he
left
for
America
with
his
picture,
having,
a
few
days
prior
to
his
departure,
dined
with
Mr.
Wilberforce
as
the
guns
of
Hyde
Park
were
signalling
the
victory
of
Waterloo.
Arriving
in
Boston
on
October
18,
he
lost
no
time
in
renting
a
studio.
His
fame
had
preceded
him,
and
he
became
the
lion
of
society.
His
'Judgment
of
Jupiter'
was
exhibited
in
the
town,
and
people
flocked
to
see
it.
But
no
one
offered
to
buy
it.
If
the
line
of
high
art
he
had
chosen
had
not
supported
him
in
England,
it
was
tantamount
to
starvation
in
the
rawer
atmosphere
of
America.
Even
in
Boston,
mellowed
though
it
was
by
culture,
the
classical
was
at
a
discount.
Almost
penniless,
and
fretting
under
his
disappointment,
he
went
to
Concord,
New
Hampshire,
and
contrived
to
earn
a
living
by
painting
cabinet
portraits.
Was
this
the
end
of
his
ambitious
dreams?
Money
was
needful
to
extricate
him
from
this
drudgery
and
let
him
follow
up
his
aspirations.
Love
may
have
been
a
still
stronger
motive
for
its
acquisition.
So
he
tried
his
hand
at
invention,
and,
in
conjunction
with
his
brother
Sidney,
produced
what
was
playfully
described
as
'Morse's
Patent
Metallic
Double-Headed
Ocean-Drinker
and
Deluge-Spouter
Pump-Box.'
The
pump
was
quite
as
much
admired
as
the
'Jupiter,'
and
it
proved
as
great
a
failure.
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