26 JOHN JAMES ATJDUBON 

 Ohio in a flatboat in company with sev- 

 eral other young emigrant families. The 

 voyage occupied twelve days and was no 

 doubt made good use of by Audubon in 

 observing the wild nature along shore. 



In Louisville, he and Eozier opened 

 a large store which promised well. But 

 Audubon 7 s heart was more and more 

 with the birds, and his business more 

 and more neglected. Eozier attended to 

 the counter, and, Audubon says, grew 

 rich, but he himself spent most of the 

 time in the woods or hunting with the 

 planters settled about Louisville, be- 

 tween whom and himself a warm attach- 

 ment soon sprang up. He was not grow- 

 ing rich, but he was happy. "I shot, I 

 drew, I looked on Nature only," he 

 says, "and my days were happy beyond 

 human conception, and beyond this I 

 really cared not." 



He says that the only part of the com- 

 mercial business he enjoyed was the ever 

 engaging journeys which he made to 



