24 LIFE OF AUDUBON. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Eeturn of Mrs. Audubon to hek Fathee's House, — Audubon and Eosibb 

 MOVE to Hendbrsonvillb — Business Unremunebatiye — Determine 

 TO TRY St. GeneviAvb on the Mississippi — Sail down the Ohio and 

 delay at Cash Creek — Camp of Shawnee Indians — Wild Swan 

 Shooting with Indians — A Bbab Hunt, and Yaliant Indian — 

 TowmG UP THE Mississippi — Boat Frozen in — Meeting with Osage 

 Indians — Desperate Effort to Kescde the Boat from Ice — Arrival 

 AT St. Genevieve. 



At Louisville it was discovered that business was suffering 

 from over-competition, and no further time was to be lost in 

 transferring the stock to Hendersonville. Before leaving Louis- 

 ville to take up his residence at Hendersonville, farther down 

 the Ohio river, Audubon took his wife and young son back 

 to her father's house at Fatland Ford, where they resided for a 

 year. 



Audubon and his partner Eosier arranged their migration 

 with the remaining stock, and entered upon their voyage of 

 one hundred and twenty miles down the Ohio to Henderson- 

 ville, Arriving at this place, they found the neighbourhood 

 thinly inhabited, and the demand for goods almost limited to 

 the coarsest material. The merchants were driven to live upon 

 the produce of their guns and lishing-rods. 



The clerk employed for the firm had even to assist in supply- 

 ing the table, and while he did so Eosier attended to the 

 business. The profits on any business done was enormous, but 

 the sales were so trifling that another change was determined 

 on. It was proposed that the stock in hand should be removed 



