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John James Audubon

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 My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys; one of the latter was a full-grown male of a very large species.

 My plan is to publish one Number at my own expense and risk, and travel with it under my arm-and beg my way.

 On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.

 On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

 One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

 The mercantile business did not suit me.

 The Purchasing of Too Many goods sold on credit of course Lost, reduced us-Divided us.

 The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

 This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.

 To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

 To my Lucy I now offer myself with my stock, wares and chattels and all the devotedness of heart attached to such an enthusiastic being as I am.

 Well, I heard he liked to eat old wives' eggs.

 What! Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise - to add my caricature of one of the wonders of the world to those which I see here? No - I give up the idea as a vain attempt.

 When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

 Who is the stranger... that can form an adequate conception of the extent of its primeval woods-of the glory of those columnar trunks, that for centuries have waved in the breeze?


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