CHAPTER XXVIII

THORNS ON THE ROSE

Contributions to magazines—Attacked in

Philadelphia—Statement to Sully—The rattlesnake

episode—Behavior of a Philadelphia editor—Mistaken

identity in account of the reptile—Lesson of

the serpent's tooth—Audubon's long lost lily

rediscovered—"Nosarians and Anti-Nosarians"—Bachman and

Audubon on vultures—Aim of the critics—Authorship in

the _Biography_—His most persistent heckler—Pitfall of

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