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he esteemed, tried to dissuade him from the plan of 
publishing his drawings in their full size, which was 
that of life, on account of the great expense involved 
and the enormous bulk such a work would assume; but 
he could not bring himself to give up the idea, in which 
he received the support of the London bookseller, Mr. 
Bohn, who, after seeing Audubon’s drawings reversed 
his opinion, saying that they must be brought out in 
their full size, and that they would certainly pay. 
After coming to England Audubon often thought 
of the shifting scenes and strange contrasts his life had 
brought. One day he felt the pinch of poverty, but 
on the next fared sumptuously at the tables of the rich; 
now a rambler in the wilds of America, glad to accept 
the hospitality of the humblest prairie squatter, now the 
guest of some metropolitan aristocrat. “The squatter,” 
he said, when writing in England, “is rough, true, and 
hospitable; my friends here polished, true, and gener- 
ous. Both give freely, and he who during the tough 
storms of life can be in such spots may well say that 
he has tasted happiness.” 
While at Manchester Audubon was driven to the 
town of Bakewell, “the spot,” he wrote in deference to 
his wife, “which has been honored with thy ancestor’s 
name.” Shortly after, on October 23, he started by 
stage for Edinburgh, and the distance of 212 miles was 
covered in three days; the fare was £5 5s. 5d., which he 
regarded as exorbitant, but he complained not so much 
of the charge as of the beggarly manner of the drivers, 
who never hesitated to open the door of their coach 
and ask for a shilling at the slightest provocation. 
At Edinburgh Audubon was welcomed so warmly 
that he began to feel that ultimate success was at last 
within his reach. Professor Robert Jameson of the 
