JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 69 
was much amused by ‘The Comedy of 
Errors,’ and afterwards, ‘The Green 
Room.’ I admire Miss Neville’s sing- 
ing very much; and her manners also; 
there is none of the actress about her, 
but much of the lady.’’ 
Audubon somewhere says of himself 
that he was ‘‘temperate to an intem- 
perate degree’? —the accounts in later 
years show that he became less strict 
in this respect. He would not drink 
with Sir Walter Scott at this time, but 
he did with the Texan Houston and 
with President Andrew Jackson, later 
on. 
In September we find him exhibiting 
his pictures in Manchester, but without 
satisfactory results. In the lobby of the 
exchange where his pictures were on ex- 
hibition, he overheard one man say to 
another: ‘‘ Pray, have you seen Mr. 
Audubon’s collection of-birds? I am 
told it is well worth a shilling; sup- 
pose we go now.”? 
