JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 83 

 tions followed. He was introduced to 

 a judge who wore a wig that " might 

 make a capital bed for an Osage Indian 

 during the whole of a cold winter on the 

 Arkansas Biver." 



On his way to Oxford he saw them 

 turn a stag from a cart " before probably 

 a hundred hounds and as many hunts- 

 men. A curious land, and a curious 

 custom, to catch an animal and then set 

 it free merely to catch it again. " At 

 Oxford he received much attention, but 

 complains that not one of the twenty-two 

 colleges subscribed for his work, though 

 two other institutions did. 



Early in April we find him back in 

 London lamenting over his sad fate 

 in being compelled to stay in so miser- 

 able a place. He could neither write nor 

 draw to his satisfaction amid the ' l bustle, 

 filth, and smoke.' 7 His mind and heart 

 turned eagerly toward America, and to 

 his wife and boys, and he began seriously 

 to plan for a year's absence from Eng- 



