12 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 

 knew not and cared naught about them. 

 I purchased excellent and beautiful 

 horses, visited all such neighbours as I 

 found congenial spirits, and was as 

 happy as happy could be." 



Near him there lived an English 

 family by the name of Bakewell, but 

 he had such a strong antipathy to the 

 English that he postponed returning the 

 call of Mr. Bakewell, who had left his 

 card at Mill Grove during one of Audu- 

 bon's excursions to the woods. In the 

 late fall or early winter, however, he 

 chanced to meet Mr. Bakewell while out 

 hunting grouse, and was so pleased with 

 him and his well-trained dogs, and his 

 good marksmanship, that he apologised 

 for his discourtesy in not returning his 

 call, and promised to do so forthwith. 

 Not many mornings thereafter he was 

 seated in his neighbour's house. 



"Well do I recollect the morning," 

 he says in the autobiographical sketch 

 which he prepared for his sons, "and 



