CHAPTER XVIII. 



Residence at Louisville — Painting the Falls of the Ohio — An 

 Adventure in the Woods — Floods op the Mississippi — The Waste 

 OF Waters — The Flooded Forest — Slaughter op Game — Bears 

 and Lynxes HroniG in Trees. 



" On the 25th October, 1822," writes Audubon, " I entered 

 Louisville with thirteen dollars in my pocket. I found my 

 friends very cool, and my position very insecure. My son 

 Victor I managed to get into the counting-house of a friend, 

 and I engaged to paint the interior of a steamer. I was advised 

 to make a painting of the falls of the Ohio, and commenced 

 the work., 



"November 9. Busy sit work, when the weather permitted, 

 and resolved to paint one hundred views of American scenery. 

 I shall not be surprised to find myself seated soon at the foot 

 of Niagara." 



While painting he mainly resided at Shipping Port, a little 

 village near Louisville. In his journey between Green Eiver 

 and Louisville, he took conveyance in a cart, the owner 

 agreeing to drive the distance. In doing so, the driver 

 missed his route, and in a storm went far off the way. The 

 horses instinctively led the way to a log hut, inhabited by a 

 newly-married pair, who did their utmost to show befitting 

 hospitality. In the midst of a hurricane the host rode off to his 

 father's, some miles distant, for a keg of cider ; the wife baked 

 bread and roasted fowls, and finally determined to sleep on the 

 floor, so that the strangers might have the comfort of a bed. 



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