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was much amused by l The Comedy of 

 Errors/ and afterwards, 'The Green 

 Boom.' I admire Miss Neville's sing- 

 ing very much j and her manners also j 

 there is none of the actress about her, 

 but much of the lady." 



Audubon somewhere says of himself 

 that he was " temperate to an intem- 

 perate degree ' ' the accounts in later 

 years show that he became less strict 

 in this respect. He would not drink 

 with Sir Walter Scott at this time, but 

 he did with the Texan Houston and 

 with President Andrew Jackson, later 

 on. 



In September we find him exhibiting 

 his pictures in Manchester, but without 

 satisfactory results. In the lobby of the 

 exchange where his pictures were on ex- 

 hibition, he overheard one man say to 

 another : l ' Pray, have you seen Mr. 

 Audubon' s collection of birds'? I am 

 told it is well worth a shilling ; sup- 

 pose we go now." 



