JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 45 

 of his drawings in hopes of getting a 

 recommendation. Yanderlyn at first 

 treated him as a mendicant and ordered 

 him to leave his portfolio in the entry. 

 After some delay, in company with a 

 government official, he consented to see 

 the pictures. 



' f The perspiration ran down my face, J J 

 says Audubon, " as I showed him my 

 drawings and laid them on the floor. " 

 He was thinking of the expedition to 

 Mexico just referred to, and wanted to 

 make a good impression upon Yanderlyn 

 and the officer. This he succeeded in 

 doing, and obtained from the artist a 

 very complimentary note, as he did also 

 from Governor Eobertson of Louisiana. 



In June, Audubon left New Orleans 

 for Kentucky, to rejoin his wife and 

 boys, but somewhere on the journey en- 

 gaged himself to a Mrs. Perrie who lived 

 at Bayou Sara, Louisiana, to teach her 

 daughter drawing during the summer, at 

 sixty dollars per month, leaving him half 



