AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



By William C. Hazelton 



Who hath seen the beaver busied? Who hath watched the black-tail mating? 



Who hath lain alone to hear the wild goose cry? 

 Who hath worked the chosen water where the ounananiche is waiting, 



Or the sea -trout's jumping-crazy for the fly? 



— Kipling, 



(sTT UDUBON was a man of genius, with the courage 

 ^^ of a lion and the simplicity of a child. One 

 scarcely knows which to admire most^-the 

 mighty determination which enabled him to carry out 

 his great work in the face of difficulties so huge, or the 

 gentle and guileless SAveetness with which he throughout 

 shared his thoughts and aspirations with his wife and 

 children. 



The name of Audubon is of French origin; it is ex- 

 tremely rare, and while confined in America to the 

 family of the naturalist, has in France been traced only 

 among his ancestry. His father was one of twenty chil- 

 dren, only two of which were boys. 



The naturalist was born at Les Cayes, Santo Domingo 

 (now Haiti), on April 26, 1785. He spent his early boy- 



