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due to it, you take care to introduce Sir James Smith, 

 who, you say, strongly recommends it as a preservative 

 against insects. 



By the way, I have never in all my life read one single 

 line from the pen of Sir James Smith. 



Be all this as it may, the upshot is, that my unfor- 

 tunate name is now stuck up by you, in the Cyclopcedia 

 of the celebrated Doctor Lardner, without one solitary 

 epithet which might entitle it to a nod of approbation 

 from your far-famed employer. — Better not have intro- 

 duced it at all. 



When a man who is not sufficiently well armed espies 

 a lynx slumbering in the woods, he immediately takes 

 himself off, as quickly and as quietly as possible, lest by 

 approaching too near he may disturb the animal, and 

 thus be treated to an awful exhibition of his teeth and 

 claws. 



Though from the place of my repose I have more 

 than once seen you bewildered and lost in the quinary 

 labyrinth of your fond conceit of Circles, and have had 

 you completely in my power, still I have never thought 

 of springing at you ; because you did not appear to 

 show symptoms of an attempt to break in upon my 

 retreat. 



But now, that you have not only aroused me from my 

 slumber,— but have even been incautious enough to 

 take me by the beard ; — neither yourself nor your friends 

 ought to be surprised if I lay a vengeful and a heavy 

 paw upon you. 



Pray, how can you venture to pronounce my person- 

 alities against Mr. Audubon unjustifiable ? In the same 

 volume in which you have read the personalities you 

 must have seen that his infatuated admirers never 

 hesitated to indulge in personalities against me. 



Audubon having given to the public an incorrect ac- 



