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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
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On his life at Mill Grove, in Pennsylvania in "Audubon's Story of His Youth" edited by Maria R. Audobon, in Scribner's Magazine Vol. XIII, No. 3, (March 1893), p. 278

 

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