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...pampered child learned stalking tricks near his Nantes home. After brief study of painting under Classicist David, he was sent to America, where he devoted himself to sketching wild life, playfully at first, later so earnestly that he spent many years in almost incredible explorations-from Pennsylvania's Perkiomen River, under whose ice he was drawn one winter night; up the Hudson's shore, west to the Ohio's falls, through Kentucky meadows (where Daniel Boone taught him how to "bark" squirrels), down a flooded Mississippi into Louisiana bayous; along Florida's keys. Always poor, Audubon...
Paul Forest Myers '13, of Dillsburg, Pa., prepared at Perkiomen Seminary, where he debated on his freshman team and won the Class of 1876 Prize Debate...
Gilbert Snowden Griggs '13, of Somerville, N. J., alternate, prepared at Perkiomen Seminary...
Lorenz, J., '14, Benjamin D. Greene, Delphi, Pa., Perkiomen Seminary, Pennsburg...
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