IT. 
FInALLy, Audubon gave up the 
struggle of trying to be a business 
man. He says: ‘‘I parted with every 
particle of property I had to my credit- 
ors, keeping only the clothes I wore on 
that day, my original drawings, and my 
gun, and without a dollar in my pocket, 
walked to Louisville alone.”’ 
This he speaks of as the saddest of all 
his journeys— ‘‘the only time in my 
life when the wild turkeys that so often 
crossed my path, and the thousands of 
lesser birds that enlivened the woods and 
the prairies, all looked like enemies, 
and I turned my eyes from them, as if I 
could have wished that they had never 
existed.”’ 
But the thought of his beloved Lucy 
and her children soon spurred him to 
action. He was a good draughtsman, 
he had been a pupil of David, he 
would turn his talents to account. 
