226 John Bachman. 



have blown you up sky-high, for teaching me such 

 -a bad practice ; I say, however, that you beat me 

 all to pieces in that art. Love to all, especially, 

 to my little pussies, Lucy and Harriet. God bless 

 you/ * * 



To AUDUBON : 



March 13th, 1847. 



I am seated at daylight ready to write you, but 

 I am not sure that you deserve a letter are you all 

 frozen up, or only lazy ? 



At last the letter-press has been received, and the 

 review of the first volume. The printing of the 

 former is excellent. I could review it and row the 

 authors up Salt River. There is something in Mrs. 

 Glass' (Cookery-book), Boil your fish after you have 

 caught him, and something of old Squib, (the 

 gradener), Put on some well rotted manure if you 

 have any. However, I only hope that the Second 

 Volume may contain as much information as the 

 first. The review is quite clever ; the man knows 

 more of the history of American naturalists than I 

 thought. He gives us old men rather too much 

 butter and sugar gives a thundering broadside into 

 DeKay, and abuses Harlan a little too much. 



Of late, I have spent money, and given much 

 trouble to my friends in obtaining Opossums by 

 the twenties. I should like to reward the hard 

 laborers with books for this purpose I have taken 

 twelve copies, and should like to have six more. 



I have two new subscribers for you, (the copies 

 must be bound handsomely), viz : for The Charles- 

 ton Library Society and Hon. Mitchell King. 



I send you to-day, by the Brig " George" a Wild- 

 turkey. I have carefully kept her, doctored her 

 warts, and she looks pretty well, only her wing- 



