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with the Mocking-birds and Rattle-snake, but, Lucy, the 

 Turkeys — her brood, the pose of the Cock Turkey — the 

 Hawk pouncing on seventeen Partridges, the Whooping 

 Crane devouring aUigators newly born — at these he ex- 

 claimed again and again. All were, he said, wonderful 

 productions ; he wished to engrave the Partridges ; but 

 when the Great-footed Hawks came with bloody rags at 

 their beaks' ends, and cruel delight in the glance of their 

 daring eyes, he stopped mute an instant, then said, " That 

 1 will engrave and publish." We were too numerous a 

 party to transact business, then, and the subject was ad- 

 journed. Fatigued and excited by this, I wrote for some 

 hours, and at four walked out and paid my respects to 

 young Dr. Henry at the Infirmary, — a nice young man, — 

 and at five I found myself at Mr. Lizars', who at once 

 began on the topic of my drawings, and asked why I did 

 not publicly exhibit them. I told him how kind and 

 generous the Institution at Liverpool had been, as well as 

 Manchester, and that I had a letter of thanks from the 

 Committees. He returned with me to my lodgings, read 

 the letter, and we marched arm in arm *'-om Mrs. Dickie's 

 to Professor Jameson, who kept the letter, so he said, to 

 make good use of it ; I showed Mr. Lizars other letters 

 of recommendation, and as he laid down the last he said: 

 " Mr. Audubon, the people here don't know who 5'ou are 

 at all, but depend upon it they shall know." We then 

 talked of the engraving of the Hawks, and it seems that it 

 will be done. Perhaps even yet fame may be mine, and 

 enable me to provide all that is needful for my Lucy and 

 my children. Wealth I do not crave, but comfort; and 

 for my boys I have the most ardent desire that they may 

 receive the best of education, far above any that I possess; 

 and day by day science advances, new thoughts and new 

 ideas crowd onward, there is always fresh food for enjoy- 

 ment, study, improvement, and I must place them where 

 all this may be a possession to them. 



