CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. — A SURPRISED CLERK 1 



II. — A LITTLE BIRD THAT DIED .8 



III. — Decisive hours — the story of poor Polly and the mon- 

 key 11 



IV. — Young Audubon's cave 24 



V. — A strange adventure on the ice — a wedding journey 



IN AN " ARK " 35 



VI.— A PEDLER WITH A FACE LIKE A BIRD 39 



VII. — A HERBMAN OF SINGLE SIGHT WHO WAS LAUGHED AT — THE 



HERB DOCTOR 43 



VIII. — The genius that sees — the story of the Forest Inn 



AND THE WREN 56 



IX. — Victor, the son of Audubon — father and son in the 



FOREST — FOREST TALES — PARTRIDGE LAND — AN OLD KEN- 

 TUCKY Fourth of July 63 



X. — In days of poverty — father and son — Daniel Boone . 81 



XI. — A NOBLE WIFE 96 



XII. — Victor, the forest boy — how he studied nature . . 99 

 XIII. — Audubon discovers the great eagle, the bird of Wash- 

 ington — THE EMBLEM OF THE REPUBLIC .... 105 



XIV. — The dark room — Audubon and the rats .... 109 

 XV. — Alexander Wilson, the American " Robinson Crusoe " 



— his parrot 113 



XVI. — Florida as it was 117 



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