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later, after having taken up bis abode on Twelfth street, near F street. 

 Though a single room was sufficient at first, the need of a ])arlor 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, bis 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 descrip- 

 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 ceiliug. 

 [Near a side window was an aquarium filled witb fish, turtles, and 

 aquatic plants, an ingenious fountain, of his own make, playing upon 

 some rock-work in the center, while Engbsb ivy was trained upon a wire 

 trellis around tbe window. The books were disposed in narrow, high 

 cases (boxes set one u[)on 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 brae, 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 circular 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 his parlor. 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 ai^paratus, 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 i)leasant 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. 



