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the house in order that I might have an opportunity of witness- 

 ing their evolutions and flight. The hawks were brought with 

 bells and hoods and perched on gloved hands as in the days of 

 chivalry. The countess wrote her name in my subscription- 

 book, and offered to pay the price in advance. 



" December 31. Dined with Captain Basil Hall, and met 

 Francis Jeffrey and Mr. M'CuUoch, the distinguished writer on 

 political economy, a plain, simple, and amiable man. Jeffrey is 

 a little man, with a serious face and dignified air. He looks 

 both shrewd and cunning, and talks with so much volubility he 

 is rather displeasing. In the course of the evening Jeffrey 

 seemed to discover that if he was Jeffrey I was Audubon," 



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