m. 



FINALLY, Audnbon gave up the 

 struggle of trying to be a business 

 man. He says : "I parted with every 

 particle of property I had to my credit- 

 ors, keeping only the clothes I wore on 

 that day, my original drawings, and my 

 gun, and without a dollar in my pocket, 

 walked to Louisville alone." 



This he speaks of as the saddest of all 

 his journeys "the only time in my 

 life when the wild turkeys that so often 

 crossed my path, and the thousands of 

 lesser birds that enlivened the woods and 

 the prairies, all looked like enemies, 

 and I turned my eyes from them, as if I 

 could have wished that they had never 

 existed." 



But the thought of his beloved Lucy 

 and her children soon spurred him to 

 action. He was a good draughtsman, 

 he had been a pupil of David, he 

 would turn his talents to account. 



