CHAPTER V. 
AUDUBON—-THE HUNTER-NATURALIST. 
THE time had now come to my developed and overflowing 
passions when life must mate itself with destiny ; when tastes 
and energies thus nourished in wild seclusion, should seck 
their legitimate direction—should break away on their own 
course to find their natural level! 
And so they did, with a vengeance! For had the uncon- 
cuerable instinct been wanting in my nature, there was one 
NAME that had so filled my life, that it alone would have 
been sufficient to inspire me with a giant’s strength, had such 
been necessary, to burst all bonds and away upon the same 
free track ! 
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