108 LIFE OF AUDUBON. 



exhibition in that city. " Dr. Traill, of the Eoyal Institution, 

 had ordered all my drawings to be packed up by the curator 

 of the museum, and their transport gave me no trouble 

 whatever. 



" September 10. I left Liverpool and the many kind friends I 

 had made in it. In five and a half hours the coach arrived 

 at Manchester. I took lodgings in the King's Arms. I strolled 

 about the city,'~and it seemed to me to be most miserably laid 

 out. I was struck by the sallow looks, sad faces, ragged gar- 

 ments, and poverty of a large portion of the population, which 

 seemed worse off than the negroes of Louisiana. I exhibited my 

 pictures in a gallery at Manchester at one shilling for entrance, 

 but the result was not satisfactory." 



At Manchester Audubon made the acquaintance of two very 

 valuable friends — Mr. Gregg and Mr. McMurray. He visited 

 many families, and was struck with the patriarchal manner of 

 an Englishman who called his son " my love." He enjoyed for 

 the iirst time a day's shooting after the English fashion in the 

 neighbourhood of Manchester, but does not appear to have been 

 charmed with the sport. It was soon discovered that the 

 exhibition of his drawings at Manchester was not going to pay ; 

 but he opened a subscription-book for the publication of his 

 work on the Birds of America. 



" Sejatemher 28. Ee visited Liverpool to consult about a pro- 

 spectus for my book. Stayed with Mr. Kathbone, and met 

 there Mr. John Bohn, the London bookseller, who advised me to 

 go to Paris and consult about cost of publication, after which 1 

 ought to go to London and compare the outlays before fixing 

 upon any plan. Mrs. Eathbone desired me to draw the Wild 

 Turkey of America the size of my thumb-nail. This she had 

 engraved on a precious stone in the form of a seal, and presented 

 it to me. 



" October 6. I returned to Manchester, driven in the carriage 

 of a friend, and arrived at the hall in which my pictures were 

 exhibited, to find that the haU-keeper had been drunk and had 

 no returns to make. I stayed about six weeks at Manchester, 

 but the exhibition of my pictures did not prosper. I visited 

 Matlock, and paid five pounds for spars to take home to my 

 wife. I pulled some flowers fronl the hills she had played over 



