30 THE STORY OF A BIRD LOVER 



study would engross so much of my attention 

 and time later. 



A very pleasant and profitable year was spent 

 at Cornell University. During that term I 

 heard university lectures delivered by Louis 

 Agassiz, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor, 

 Goldwin Smith, and other notable men. I made 

 the acquaintance of Mr. Cornell in a slight 

 way, and also of the president of the new 

 university, Andrew Dickson White. I came to 

 know the librarian of the university, Willard 

 Fiske, quite intimately, and through him his fast 

 friend, Bayard Taylor. 



Dr. Wilson, one of the professors of the uni- 

 versity, had a son with similar tastes to mine, 

 though I think they lay more in the direction of 

 sportmanship. However, he had one thing I did 

 not have, a light double-barrelled gun, and I used 

 to go with him whenever I had the opportunity, 

 and prepared birds whenever he could spare 

 specimens which he had killed. After a little, it 

 came to be known that I was interested in that 

 sort of thing, and the boys helped me all they 

 could. I may say that during these years I was 

 very lame, often having to resort to crutches. 



During the next summer vacation my mother 

 was away from her home, in Maine, and I spent 

 nearly two months on a farm that belonged to an 

 uncle. 



