“At breakfast I drank the proprietor’s health. “‘Monsieur, votre santé! Votre hospitalité est magnifique! Votre table est bien gré! Votre moqueur--! _Ah! Votre moqueur!_ (a pause with dramatic enthusiasm, then continuing) vous procurez deux, trois, quatre plus moqueurs! et votre hôtel est perfection!’ “This eloquent outburst greatly amused the Madame, but the old man seemed ‘busting’ with suppressed emotion, which probably, had he then been in pocket for his bill, would have shown some outward token. “We left this place for the day and after settling the bill, we told them that we would leave our satchels until we returned in the evening, whereupon ‘la madame’ through my interpreter, asked me if she should prepare a meal for us for evening. I asked her in reply if she would cook anything I wished, to order. She replied ‘Oui! anything I can get.’ Whereupon I ordered ‘_three moqueurs on toast_!’ much to her discomfiture, and she grumbled to herself as she left us, which grumble being translated would signify, ‘My God! three mocking birds! that feast would cost you thirty dollars!’” The rest of the year was spent in working up the material thus gathered, and much of the following winter and spring. The summer of 1887 was passed in Washington, Connecticut, where, as a note in his journal tells us, he “spent a very busy season. Made many drawings for two prospective articles on ‘Midnight Rambles’ and ‘Insect Botanists,’ besides many flower-studies and a number of water-colors. Very busy on the ‘Memorial’ volume to Mr. Gunn. Made a large number of drawings for botany.” The last remark refers to a large scheme which now possessed his teeming brain, a plan to write an illustrated botany. He never dropped his purpose,--indeed, abandoned plans were unknown in his life-history,--and before his death he had accumulated over 1500 drawings toward such a work. There have been many such undertakings put forth, successful and valuable. But it is impossible to think without a pang of the wonderful work he would have made out of his accurate knowledge and his matchless art! The “Memorial” was published in 1887, and he went on with the articles and the water-colors, busy all the time, and always laying out work in advance of his swiftest execution. The spring of 1888 brought the opportunity for a trip to Europe, which included a tour in Great Britain, France, Holland, and Switzerland, with a fortnight in London and another in Paris. His camera and his pencil were both busy, but the new experiences made only an episode in his busy life. He was interested in all the art he saw, and the life of the people appealed to him there, as it did at home. A letter describing his impressions of Holland shows the spirit in which he traveled and the things he elected to see.