62 IN THE DAYS OF AUDUBON 



"The world!" said Calvert. "He said 'the world.' 

 "What can that man be thinking about? " 



The men echoed, " The world! " 



" He thinks," said Calvert, " that the world will one 

 day see that poor little wren — the King of England, it may 

 be, ' The world ' ! " 



" And Emperor of all the Bussias," added another. 

 " What an imagination that man must have ! " 



" The Emperor Bushia? " echoed the men. All laughed 

 gaily, then each one went his way. 



We shall return to the Forest Inn again. 



Victor? He pursued his way alone; he sought few 

 pleasures, he made few friends. He saw his father's great 

 purpose in life, and he gave his own life to that — his heart, 

 his thought, and all the best that was in him. He lived in 

 his purpose and was happy. 



He heard his father ridiculed, sneered at. What of 

 that? All people of high and original ideas have been 

 laughed at — all scientists, ' like Franklin, all people of 

 original views and purposes in the long past. 



Such are called visionary. " Where there is no vision 

 the people perish." 



