80 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 

 travelling as I am now, to procure sub- 

 scribers he, as well as myself, was re- 

 ceived with rude coldness, and some- 

 times with that arrogance which belongs 

 to parvenus. 7 J 



A week or two later we find him 

 again in Edinburgh where he break- 

 fasted with Professor Wilson (" Chris- 

 topher North 77 ), whom he greatly en- 

 joyed, a man without stiffness or ceremo- 

 nies : "No cravat, no waistcoat, but a 

 fine frill of his own profuse beard, his 

 hair flowing uncontrolled, and his 

 speech dashing at once at the object 

 in view, without circumlocution. . . . 

 He gives me comfort by being comforta- 

 ble himself.' 7 



In early November he took the coach 

 for Glasgow, he and three other pas- 

 sengers making the entire journey 

 without uttering a single word : 1 1 We 

 sat like so many owls of different spe- 

 cies, as if afraid of one another. 7 7 Four 

 days in Glasgow and only one sub- 

 scriber. 



