52 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
through the hole into which the pin 
fitted.” 
Audubon reached Natchez on March 
24, 1822, and remained there and in the 
vicinity till the spring of 1823, teaching 
drawing and French to private pupils 
and in the college at Washington, nine 
miles distant, hunting, and painting the 
birds, and completing his collection. 
Among other things he painted the 
‘‘Death of Montgomery’’ from a print. 
His friends persuaded him to raffle the 
picture off. This he did, and taking one 
number himself, won the picture, while 
his finances were improved by three 
hundred dollars received for the tickets. 
Early in the autumn his wife again joined 
him, and presently we find her acting as 
governess in the home of a clergyman 
named Davis. 
In December, there arrived in Natchez 
a wandering portrait painter named 
Stein, who gave Audubon his first les- 
sons in the use of oil colours, and was in- 
