52 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 



through the hole into which the pin 

 fitted." 



Audnbon reached Natchez on March 

 24, 1822, and remained there and in the 

 vicinity till the spring of 1823, teaching 

 drawing and French to private pupils 

 and in the college at Washington, nine 

 miles distant, hunting, and painting the 

 birds, and completing his collection. 

 Among other things he painted the 

 " Death of Montgomery " from a print. 

 His friends persuaded him to raffle the 

 picture off. This he did, and taking one 

 number himself, won the picture, while 

 his finances were improved by three 

 hundred dollars received for the tickets. 

 Early in the autumn his wife again joined 

 him, and presently we find her acting as 

 governess in the home of a clergyman 

 named Davis. 



In December, there arrived in Natchez 

 a wandering portrait painter named 

 Stein, who gave Audubon his first les- 

 sons in the use of oil colours, and was in- 



