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Louisiana, further north, and they were some time 

 in the vicinity of Philadelphia and New York. In 

 1830 the two brothers were left in America while 

 Mr. and Mrs. Audubon were in England and 

 France, and again John tried his hand at clerkship 

 with better success than in his earlier years, but 

 not for long. 



On his return to America Mr. Audubon made 

 plans for a summer in Labrador and in 1833 made 

 this journey, John with three other young men 

 accompanying him. The days were not only long, 

 but arduous. John was not quite twenty-one, and 

 his love of fun was as strong as in his boyhood, but 

 he found none in being called at three in the 

 morning to search for birds, being frequently 

 drenched to the skin all day, and working with 

 bird skins through "the interminable twilights." 

 Nevertheless he and his young companions found 

 time to rob salmon preserves when the fishermen 

 would not sell, to slip on land when opportunity 

 offered, to attend some of the very primitive balls 

 and other amusements to be found on these desolate 

 shores, and to extract pleasures which perhaps 

 youth alone could have found among such sur- 

 roundings. 



So passed the years taking boyhood and youth 

 with them until 1834, when the Audubon family 

 all went to England and Scotland, where both 

 young men painted very steadily, making copies of 



