. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. THE EUROPEAN JOURNALS 259 n- at in lys. ork Lt m pen, have anso- j, just three y dear several yj poor ings »â « nner as [k from |ars into lusc the Ay, and |Lon(ion. I much as Russell t widow. )resented le request le Britisl^ Ifine, per- )atronage. [er on the intleman, and my friends all spoke as if a mountain of sovereigns iiad dropped in an ample purse at once, and for me. The Duchess of Clarence also subscribed. I attended to my business closely, but my agents neither attended to it nor to my orders to them; and at
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. THE EUROPEAN JOURNALS 259 n- at in lys. ork Lt m pen, have anso- j, just three y dear several yj poor ings »â « nner as [k from |ars into lusc the Ay, and |Lon(ion. I much as Russell t widow. )resented le request le Britisl^ Ifine, per- )atronage. [er on the intleman, and my friends all spoke as if a mountain of sovereigns iiad dropped in an ample purse at once, and for me. The Duchess of Clarence also subscribed. I attended to my business closely, but my agents neither attended to it nor to my orders to them; and at last, nearly at bay for means to carry on so heavy a business, I decided to make a sortie for the purpose of collecting my dues, and to augment my subscribers, and for that reason left London this day fort- night past for Manchester, where I was received by my friends (i bras ouverts. I lived and lodged at friend Ser- geant's, collected all my money, had an accession of nine subscribers, found a box of beautiful bird-skins sent Bentley by my dear boy Johnny, ^ left in good spirits, and here I am at Leeds. On my journey hither in the coach a young sportsman going from London to York was my companion; he was about to join a shooting expedition, and had two dogs with him in a basket on top of the coach. We spoke of game, fish, and such topics, and presently he said a work on ornithology was being pub- lished in London by an American (he told me later he took me for a Frenchman) nameci Audubon, and spoke of my industry and regretted he had not seen them, as his sisters had, and spoke in raptures of them, etc. I could not of course permit this, so told him my name, when he at once shook hands, and our conversation continued even more easily than before. I am in the same lodgings as formerly. My landlady was talking with a meagre- looking child, who told a sad story of want, which my good landlady confirmed. I never saw greater pleasure than sparkled in that child's face as I ga
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