AUDUBON JOURNAL 



being about 4 or 5 feet higher than the ground be- 

 hind the Levee — 



During a Walk this afternoon a Beautifull Missis- 

 sipi Kite sailed by me, unfortunately I had no Gun. 



Near our House a Mocking Bird regularly resorts to 

 the South Angle of a Chimney top and salutes us with 

 Sweetest Notes from the rising of the Moon untill 

 about Midnight, and every Morning from about 8 

 o'clock untill 1 1 , when it flys to the Convent Garden 

 to feed — I have remarked that Bird allways in the 

 Same Spot and Same Position, and have been par- 

 ticularly pleased at hearing him [try to] Imitate the 

 Watchman's Cry of AWs Well that Issues from the 

 fort about 3 Squares Distant, and so well, has he 

 sometimes performed that I Would have been mis- 

 taken if he had not repeated too often in the Space of 

 a 10 minutes 



March 15th Thursday 1821 



Wrote to My Beloved Wife and Mr Rob Best Last 

 Night — Saw Many Chuck Will's Widow flying about the 

 streets and some Night Hawks 



I Made a Likeness to day for a Lady's Sadie a thing 

 I had not the Leass use for, but the Man I had Made 

 a portrait for. Wanted his Wife's Very Much and 

 Could not Spare Money, and Not to disapoint him 

 I Sufered Myself to be Sadled — 



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