birds. He obtained a position in a Cincinnati museum, and he established a draw- 

 ing school. The museum authorities promised to pay him well but did not keep 

 their promise. 



Finally the naturalist went to New Orleans. As Maria R. Audubon tells us, 

 "he had now a great number of drawings, and the idea of publishing these had 

 suggested itself to both him and his wife." 



Audubon was separated from his family for nearly a year, being kept from 

 sending for his wife and children because of the fear of yellow fever. He took 

 a position as tutor in the family of Mrs. Chas. Percy of Bayou Sara. "Here the 

 beloved Louisiana, whose praises he never wearied of singing, whose magnolia 

 words were more to him than palaces, whose swamps were storehouses of treas- 

 ure, he stayed till autumn, when, all fear of yellow fever being over, he sent for 

 his wife and son." 



Poverty was the part of the Audubons while in the far South, but the natural- 

 ist kept up his hope and his cheer. March, 1824, found Audubon in Philadelphia, 

 where his drawings for the first time drew an attention which afterwards broad- 

 ened and which finally led to the recognition which has lasted through the years. 

 For a year he traveled through the woods and fields of New York and the country 

 farther west about the Great Lakes. Thence again he went to New Orleans, 

 intending from there to go to England. He had made in various ways, one of 

 which was the teaching of dancing, about two thousand dollars, and with this 

 and with some of the savings of his wife, money which she had put aside to 

 forward the journey to England, from which much was expected, he started for 

 the other side of the water. 



It is impossible to give in detail the story of Audubon's visit to England. 

 There he received encouragement for his work and recognition of his scientific, 

 researches. He went abroad again some time afterward and become associated 

 with Mr. William MacGillivray, and the result was the "Ornithological Biogra- 

 phy." Mrs. Audubon, who was with her husband, rewrote the entire manuscript 

 that it might be sent to America. 



In speaking of the association of Audubon with MacGillivray, Dr. Coues 

 says : "The brilliant French-American naturalist was little of a 'scientist.' Of 

 his work, the magical beauties of form and color and movement are all his ; his 

 page is redolent of nature's fragrance, but MacGillivray's are the bone and 

 sinew, the hidden anatomical parts beneath the lovely face, the nomenclature, 

 the classification — in a word the technicalities of the science." 



Mr. and Mrs. Audubon spent some time in England and in Scotland, and 

 later went to the Continent. The naturalist secured subscribers for his great work 

 on the birds, and this to him was a breath of life, for it gave him the assurance 

 of the means to continue in his chosen way. 



There is a sharp realization on the part of the writer of this that in the brief- 

 ness of the sketch nothing at all adequate can be given touching the experiences 

 of Audubon at this time. He came back to America and went on with his work 



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