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As Audubon always did, he gathered enthusiasm when he thought about the goal and not the means by which he had to accomplish it.

Only the stuffed quail and artichokes and asparagus and the really excellent champagne in the first-class galley went some little way toward reconciling Audubon to being stuck on the steamship an extra day.

But they were enough to send Audubon and a few other unfortunates running for the rail.

Harris got into his night-shirt, pissed in the chamber pot under his bed, blew out the oil lamp Audubon had left burning, and lay down.

As soon as Audubon said that, as soon as he thought about his stomach, he gulped.

He and Audubon and Harris clasped hands and clapped one another on the back when the gangplank went down and passengers could disembark.

Thanks to his thoughts about such things, Audubon had stayed in some places more comfortable than those where he might have if he made his own arrangements.

Avalon, Audubon might almost have traveled through the French or English countryside.

Harris ambled away, Audubon set the scarlet-cheeked woodpecker on the grass and walked over to one of the pack horses.

But when Audubon saw the Green Ridge Mountains rising over the eastern horizon, the temptation to leave the main road got too strong to resist.

Curious, Audubon stopped and waited by some poppies for a closer look at the insects.

The throaty hoots of an Atlantean ground owl woke Audubon somewhere near midnight.

Even without those tell-tale smiles, Audubon would have known he was being gouged.

Peering ahead with a spyglass, Audubon saw countless dark valleys half hidden by the pines and cycads that gave the mountains their name.

Birdsongs filled the air, especially just after sunrise when Audubon and Harris started out each day.