80 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
travelling as I am now, to procure sub- 
scribers he, as well as myself, was re- 
ceived with rude coldness, and some- 
times with that arrogance which belongs 
to parvenus.”’ 
A week or two later we find him 
again in Edinburgh where he break- 
fasted with Professor Wilson (‘‘Chris- 
topher North’’), whom he greatly en- 
joyed, a man without stiffness or ceremo- 
nies: ‘No cravat, no waistcoat, but a 
fine frill of his own profuse beard, his 
hair flowing uncontrolled, and _ his 
speech dashing at once at the object 
in view, without circumlocution. ... 
He gives me comfort by being comforta- 
ble himself.’’ 
In early November he took the coach 
for Glasgow, he and three other pas- 
sengers making the entire journey 
without uttering a single word: ‘‘We 
sat like so many owls of different spe- 
cies, as if afraid of one another.’’ Four 
days in Glasgow and only one sub- 
scriber. 
