AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Curious one to Me, the room we are in and for which 

 We pay Sio per Month is situated in Barraks Street 

 near the Corner of that & Royal Street — between 

 Two Shops of Grocers and divided from them and 

 our Yellow Landlady by Mere Board Partitions, re- 

 ceiving at once all the new Matter that Issues from 

 the thundering Mouths of all these groupes— the 

 Honest Woman spoke much of honesty in Strangers 

 and required one Month paid in Advance, this how- 

 ever I could not do, and satisfied her with one half 

 Not taking a Receipt although She appeared very 

 urgent — 



I walked a good deal about the City in search of 

 Work & Willson's Ornithology but was not favored 

 with any success — extremely anxious to receive some 

 news from My familly — am very much fatigued of 

 New Orleans Where I cannot Shoot Two Birds with one 

 Stone I retired to our Lodgings at Dusk — 



Saw Cap^ Barton's of Henderson who said he would 

 Not have known me if I had not Spoke within his 

 hearing (one half page blotted out) 



Saturday 24th February 1821 



Idle, and the weather fair, took a Wade in the Woods 

 the vegetation forwarded beyond my expectations. 

 Saw some handsome Plants in Bloom that made me 

 regret of having sent My Drawings home — Birds ex- 

 tremely Shy and nothing New; — in the afternoon 



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