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he esteemed, tried to dissuade him from the plan of 

 publishing his drawings in their full size, which was 

 that of life, on account of the great expense involved 

 and the enormous bulk such a work would assume; but 

 he could not bring himself to give up the idea, in which 

 he received the support of the London bookseller, Mr. 

 Bohn, who, after seeing Audubon's drawings reversed 

 his opinion, saying that they must be brought out in 

 their full size, and that they w r ould certainly pay. 



After coming to England Audubon often thought 

 of the shifting scenes and strange contrasts his life had 

 brought. One day he felt the pinch of poverty, but 

 on the next fared sumptuously at the tables of the rich ; 

 now a rambler in the wilds of America, glad to accept 

 the hospitality of the humblest prairie squatter, now the 

 guest of some metropolitan aristocrat. "The squatter," 

 he said, when writing in England, "is rough, true, and 

 hospitable; my friends here polished, true, and gener- 

 ous. Both give freely, and he who during the tough 

 storms of life can be in such spots may well say that 

 he has tasted happiness." 



While at Manchester Audubon was driven to the 

 town of Bakewell, "the spot," he wrote in deference to 

 his wife, "which has been honored with thy ancestor's 

 name." Shortly after, on October 23, he started by 

 stage for Edinburgh, and the distance of 212 miles was 

 covered in three days; the fare was 5 5s. 5d., which he 

 regarded as exorbitant, but he complained not so much 

 of the charge as of the beggarly manner of the drivers, 

 who never hesitated to open the door of their coach 

 and ask for a shilling at the slightest provocation. 



At Edinburgh Audubon was welcomed so warmly 

 that he began to feel that ultimate success was at last 

 within his reach. Professor Robert Jameson of the 



