My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to which my father's letter of credit entitled me. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France, whose name was a common one, John Smith, took particular charge of me, removed me to Morristown, N. J., and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies who kept a boarding - house. To their skilful and untiring ministrations I may safely say I owe the prolongation of my life.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.