CHAPTER III. 



Rehcrn of Mrs, Audubon to her Father'' s House — Audubon ajtd Rosier 

 move to Hendersonville — Business Unremunerative — Determine 

 to try St. Genevieve on the Mississippi — Wild Swan shooting with 

 Indians — A Bear Hunt, and Valiant Indian — Arrival at St. 

 Genevieve. 



T Louisville it was discovered that business was 

 suffering from over-competition, and no further 

 time was to be lost in transferring the stock to 

 Hendersonville. Before leaving Louisville to take up 

 his residence at Hendersonville, farther down the Ohio 

 river, Audubon took his wife and young son back to her 

 father's house at Fatland Ford, where they resided for a 

 year. 



Audubon and his partner Rosier arranged their 

 migration with the remaining stock, and entered upon 

 their voyage of one hundred and twenty miles down the 

 Ohio to Hendersonville. Arriving at this place, they 

 found the neighborhood thinly inhabited, and the demand 

 for goods almost limited to the coarsest materials. The 

 merchants were driven to live upon the produce of their 

 guns and fishing-rods. 



The clerk employed for the firm had even to assist 

 in supplying the table, and while he did so Rosier attended 

 to the business. The profits on any business done was 

 enormous, but the sales were so trifling that another 

 change was determined on. It was proposed that the 

 stock in hand should be removed to St. Genevieve, a 

 settlement on the Mississippi river, and until it was 

 ascertained how the enterprise would prosper, Mrs. 



