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John James Audubon
 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. |
| Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published. |
| You have seen a poor old man. |
| Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents. |
| How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? |
| Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. |
| The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. |
| My drawings of Owls and other birds of similar plumage were much improved. I have continued the style ever since. |
| I waged war against my feelings. |
| My plan is to publish one Number at my own expense and risk, and travel with it under my arm-and beg my way. |
| The Purchasing of Too Many goods sold on credit of course Lost, reduced us-Divided us. |
| How strangely our Bark is tossed-Poor as Job yesterday-rich as Croesus Tomorrow!-and who could not wish to live to enjoy this Life of pleasurable anxiety? Not I believe me. |
| 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. |
| But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. |
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