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later, after having taken up his abode on Twelfth street, near F street. 
Though a single room was sufficient at first, the need of a parlor ere 
long began to be appreciated; and he subsequently added to his suite 
a bedroom for the use of his chance visitors. The larger part of his 
library was brought to these apartments, bric-a-brac and souvenirs of 
travel were displayed, his pictures hung; and as he never did anything 
by halves, these accumulated so rapidly by purchase that the vacant ~ 
wall space of the three rooms was in time literally covered. A deserip- 
tion of these apartments will not be out of place. 
The carpeted floors were covered with skins of animals, some of them 
quite valuable, and not altogether devoid of beauty. In two of the 
windows were plants, and a mass of vines clambered to the ceiling. 
Near a side window was an aquarium filled with fish, turties, and 
aquatic plants, an ingenious fountain, of his own make, playing upon 
some rock-work in the center, while English ivy was trained upon a wire 
trellis around the window. The books were disposed in narrow, high 
cases (boxes set one upon another, with glass-door fronts), and upon 
the dressing-case between the front windows rested a heavy silver tank- — 
ard, a family heirloom. The center table was covered with valuable 
books, ceramics, and bric-a brac, the mantel opposite supporting a bronze 
clock, with carvings and quaint metal work disposed about the shelf. 
Against the paneling of the black mantel were hung a collection of 
pipes gathered in his travels, some of them made by Indians. Around 
the room upon light cireular stands were displayed several glass cases 
of richly plumaged humming birds and gaudy exotic butterflies and 
beetles ; and over a central book-case was perched a solemn white owl 
in spectacles, reading its own history from a work on ornithology. 
This was hisparlor. In the room adjoining (his bedroom) the wall upon 
one entire side was covered with fire-arms, bows and arrows, toma- 
hawks, and other warlike objects, a human scalp of long black hair 
forming the rosette to one of his fantastic trophies. Another part of 
the wall was devoted to rods, nets, and implements of piscatorial sport. 
At one window stood his large writing table, and at the other a similar 
table covered with his engraving tools, etching materials, bottles, boxes, 
etc. Around the wood-work of the mantel-piece in this room were 
hung cooking apparatus, certainly showing hard usage, and at the third 
window, looking to the south, there were several cages of singing birds. 
Some easy chairs, the bed, a stove, and a small refrigerator completed 
the furnishing of the second room, while the third of the suite was 
simply a bedroom, tastefully furnished and adorned. It was a veritable 
curiosity shop where a very pleasant evening could be spent. I must 
not forget the decanter of sherry, the French kisses and confections or 
fruit, served upon pink shell plates, which always formed a part of his 
welcome to his visitors. When there were no visitors, however, the 
rooms were dark, save as lighted by a student lamp with a heavy green 
shade which always stood upon his writing table in the corner of the 
bedroom, for he was never idle when alone. 
