Identifier: audubonhisjourna01audu (find matches)
Title: Audubon and his journals
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Audubon, Maria Rebecca, 1843-1925 Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e signal was given, the trigger pulled, off went theload, and down on the ice came the hat of my future brother-in-law, as completely perforated as if a sieve. He repented, alas ! toolate, and was afterward severely reprimanded by Mr. Bakewell. Another anecdote I must relate to you on paper, which I haveprobably too often repeated in words, concerning my skating inthose early days of happiness; but, as the world knows nothingof it, I shall give it to you at some length. It was arranged onemorning between your young uncle, myself, and several otherfriends of the same age, that we should proceed on a duck-shooting excursion up the creek, and, accordingly, off we wentafter an early breakfast. The ice was in capital order whereverno air-holes existed, but of these a great number interrupted ourcourse, all of which were, however, avoided as we proceeded up-ward along the glittering, frozen bosom of the stream. The daywas spent in much pleasure, and the game collected was notinconsiderable.
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AUDUBON 21 On our return, in the early dusk of the evening, 1 was bid tolead the way; I fastened a white handkerchief to a stick, held itup, and we all proceeded toward home as a flock of wild ducksto their roosting-grounds. Many a mile had already been passed,and, as gayly as ever, we were skating swiftly along when dark-ness came on, and now our speed was increased. Uncon-sciously I happened to draw so very near a large air-hole thatto check my headway became quite impossible, and down it Iwent, and soon felt the power of a most chilling bath. My sensesmust, for aught I know, have left me for a while; be this as itmay, I must have glided with the stream some thirty or fortyyards, when, as God would have it, up I popped at another air-hole, and here I did, in some way or another, manage to crawlout. My companions, who in the gloom had seen my form sosuddenly disappear, escaped the danger, and were around mewhen I emerged from the greatest peril I have ever encountered,not excepting m

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