VANITY OF AUDUBON. 23 



salts. If Audubon had one marked fault, it was ■vanity ; he was 

 a queer compound of Aetseon and Narcissus — holding a gun in 

 one hand and flourishing a looking-glass in the other. It was 

 little not to subscribe to Wilson's book, and it naturally awakened 

 suspicion. Like all Tain men, the Frenchman was not unsel- 

 fish, as the reader will doubtless discover for himself in the 

 sequel. 



