AUDUBON JOURNAL 



I had attended a Miss Perrie to Enhance her 

 Natural tallen for Drawing, for some days When 

 her Mother Whom I intend Noticing in due time, 

 asked Me to Think about My Spending the summer 

 and fall at their farm Near Bayou Sarah; I Was glad 

 of such an overture, but would have greatly prefered 

 her Living in the Floridas — We Concluded the Bar- 

 gain promissing Me 60 Dollars per Month for One 

 half of My time to teach Miss Eliza all I could in 

 Drawing Music Dancing &<= &•= [and the] furnishing 

 us with a Room &•= for Joseph & Myself — so that 

 after the One hundred Diferent Plans I had form** as 

 Opposite as Could be to this, I found Myself bound 

 for several Months on a Farm in Louisiana. 



We left our abode in Quartier Street and Old Miss 

 Louise without the Least regret, the filthiness of her 

 Manners, did not agree with our feeling; and by this 

 time We had fully discovered that a Clean Sweet 

 HouseKeeper is quite Necessary to a Naturalist — 



Our Good Spanish Neighbour M"" Taek We Loved, 

 His Nieces sung Well, and his own Jokes now and 

 then amusing us — 



We Came to our Landing at the Mouth of Bayou 

 Sarah of a hot sultry day without any accidents; bid 

 farewell to M"^ Gordon and after Mounting the Hill 

 at S* Francis Ville Rested ourselves some Moments at 

 a M"" Semple dinner Was set, but Not My Heart for 

 it. I wished Myself on Board the Columbus, I Wished 



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