In October I  a-graping to the river meadows, and loaded

    myself ers more precious for ty and fragrance

    too, I admired, t gathe

    cranberries, small s of the meadow grass, pearly

    and red, whe

    smoothe bushel

    and to Boston and

    Neined to be jammed, to satisfy tastes of lovers of

    Nature tcongues of bison out of the

    prairie grass, regardless of torn and drooping plant.  the

    barberrys brilliant fruit

    I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling, whe

    proprietor and travellers nuts were ripe

    I laid up er.  It ing at t

    season to roam tnut hey

    noh a bag on my

    sick to open burs

    al for t, amid tling of leaves and the loud

    reproofs of ts

    I sometimes stole, for ted o

    contain sound ones.  Occasionally I climbed and srees.

    tree, w

    overs, he

    most of its

    fruit; t coming in flocks early in the morning and picking

    ts out of these

    trees to ted tant woods composed wholly of

    cnut.  ts, as far as t, itute

    for bread.  Many otitutes might, perhaps, be found.

    Digging one day for fis (Apios

    tuberosa) on its string, tato of t of

    fabulous fruit,  if I had ever dug and

    eaten in cold, and  dreamed it.  I had

    often since seen its crumpled red velvety blossom supported by the

    stems of ots  kno to be the same.

    Cultivation erminated it.  It isaste,

    muc of a frost-bitten potato, and I found it better

    boiled ted.  tuber seemed like a faint promise of

    Nature to rear  some

    future period.  In tted cattle and waving

    grain-fields t, em of an Indian

    tribe, is quite forgotten, or knos flo

    let ure reign ender and luxurious

    English grains will probably disappear before a myriad of foes, and

    t seed

    of corn to t cornfield of t,

    ; but t

    exterminated ground-nut will pere of

    frosts and self indigenous, and resume its ancient

    importance and dignity as t of ter tribe.  Some Indian

    Ceres or Minerva must or and besto; and

    ring of

    nuts may be represented on our .

    Already, by t of September, I hree

    small maples turned scarlet across te

    stems of t t of a promontory, next

    ter.  Aale told!  And gradually from

    o er of eacree came out, and it admired

    itself reflected in the

    manager of tituted some neure, distinguished

    by more brilliant or he

    walls.

    to my lodge in October, as to er

    quarters, and settled on my he walls

    overimes deterring visitors from entering.  Each morning,

    , but I did

    not trouble myself muco get rid of t complimented

    by ter.  they never

    molested me seriously, they

    gradually disappeared, into  know, avoiding

    er and unspeakable cold.

    Like t into er quarters in

    November, I used to resort to t side of alden, which

    ted from tcony shore,

    made t is so mucer and

    han by an

    artificial fire.  I till glowing embers

    wed er, .

    o build my cudied masonry.  My bricks,

    being second-o be cleaned rowel, so

    t I learned more ties of bricks and

    troar on ty years old, and o be

    still grohose sayings which men

    love to repeat .  Such sayings

    t would

    take many bloroo clean an old hem.

    Many of tamia are built of second-hand bricks

    of a very good quality, obtained from the

    cement on till.   may

    be, I ruck by tougeel which bore

    so many violent blo being .  As my bricks had been

    in a c read the name of

    Nebuc its many fireplace bricks as I

    could find, to save e, and I filled tween

    t tones from the pond shore, and

    also made my mortar e sand from the same place.  I

    lingered most about t vital part of the

    ely, t t

    the morning, a course of bricks raised a few inches

    above t nig I did not get a

    stiff neck for it t I remember; my stiff neck is of older date.

    I took a poet to board for a fortnig times, which

    caused me to be put to it for room.   his own knife,

    to scour ting to

    the labors of cooking.  I was pleased

    to see my ed,

    t, if it proceeded slo ed to endure a long

    time.  to some extent an independent structure,

    standing on to the heavens;

    even after t still stands sometimes, and its

    importance and independence are apparent.  tohe end

    of summer.  It was now November.

    to cool t

    took many eady bloo accomplis, it is so deep.

    o  evening, before I plastered my house,

    ticularly he numerous

    c I passed some cheerful evenings in

    t cool and airy apartment, surrounded by the rough brown boards

    full of knots, and rafters he bark on high overhead.  My house

    never pleased my eye so mucer it ered, though I was

    obliged to confess t it able.  S every

    apartment in e some

    obscurity over evening

    about ters?  to the fancy and

    imagination tings or ot expensive

    furniture.  I no began to in my house, I may say, when I

    began to use it for er.  I  a couple

    of old fire-dogs to keep t did me

    good to see t form on the chimney which I had

    built, and I poked t and more satisfaction

    tertain an

    ec; but it seemed larger for being a single apartment and

    remote from neigtractions of a house were

    concentrated in one room; it chen, chamber, parlor, and

    keeping-room; and isfaction parent or cer or

    servant, derive from living in a  all.  Cato

    says, ter of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his

    rustic villa quot;cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat

    caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit,quot; t is,

    quot;an oil and  it may be pleasant to

    expect imes; it ue, and

    glory.quot;  I atoes, about ts

    of peas tle rice, a

    jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.

    I sometimes dream of a larger and more populous anding

    in a golden age, of enduring materials, and  gingerbread

    of only one room, a vast, rude,

    substantial, primitive  ceiling or plastering, h

    bare rafters and purlins supporting a sort of lower heaven over

    ones o keep off rain and snow, whe king and

    queen posts stand out to receive your homage, when you have done

    reverence to trate Saturn of an older dynasty on stepping

    over t reacorch

    upon a pole to see the fireplace,

    some in ttles, some at one end

    of t anot on rafters he

    spiders, if t into when you

    side door, and the

    raveller may

    furter as you o reach in a

    tempestuous nigaining all tials of a house, and

    notreasures of

    t one vies peg, t a man

    s once kitcry, parlor, corehouse,

    and garret; whing, as a barrel or a

    ladder, so convenient a t boil,

    and pay your respects to t cooks your dinner, and the

    oven t bakes your bread, and ture and utensils

    are ts;  out, nor the

    fire, nor tress, and perimes requested to

    move from off trap-door, he

    cellar, and so learn wh

    you  stamping.  A

    as a birds nest, and you cannot go in at t door and out at

    t seeing some of its inants;

    is to be presented  to be

    carefully excluded from seven eig, s up in a particular

    cell, and told to make yourself at ary

    confinement.  No does not admit you to h,

    but  to build one for yourself somewhere in his

    alley, and ality is t of keeping you at test

    distance.  t the cooking as if he had a

    design to poison you.  I am a I have been on many a mans

    premises, and mig I am not

    a I  visit in my

    old clothes a king and queen who lived simply in such a house as I

    backing out of a

    modern palace  I so learn, if ever I am

    caught in one.

    It he very language of our parlors would lose

    all its nerve and degenerate into palaver w

    suceness from its symbols, and its metapropes are

    necessarily so far fetcers, as it

    chen and

    workshe parable of a dinner,

    commonly.  As if only t near enougo Nature and

    truto borrorope from the scholar, who dwells

    a territory or tell w is

    parliamentary in tchen?

    s were ever bold enougo

    stay and eat a y-pudding  w crisis

    approac a y retreat rat would shake

    to its foundations.  Nevert stood through a

    great many y-puddings.

    I did not plaster till it  over

    some e

    s, a sort of conveyance which would have

    tempted me to go muche

    meanhe ground on every side.  In

    lato be able to send h a

    single blo ion to transfer the

    plaster from to tly and rapidly.  I remembered

    tory of a conceited felloo

    lounge about to uring

    one day to substitute deeds for words, urned up his cuffs,

    seized a plasterers board, and ro

    mis look tohing overhead, made a

    bold gesture traigo e

    discomfiture, received tents in his ruffled bosom.  I

    admired aneering, which so

    effectually ss out takes a handsome finish, and I

    learned ties to werer is liable.  I

    o see y the bricks were which drank up all

    ture in my plaster before I , and how many

    pailfuls of er it takes to cen a new he

    previous er made a small quantity of lime by burning the shells

    of tilis, whe sake of

    t; so t I knew werials came from.  I

    mig good limestone

    myself, if I o do so.

    t and

    s coves, some days or even he general

    freezing.  t ice is especially interesting and perfect,

    being ransparent, and affords t opportunity

    t ever offers for examining ttom w is shallow; for

    you can lie at your lengter

    insect on ter, and study ttom at your

    leisure, only tant, like a picture behind a

    glass, and ter is necessarily alhere are

    many furroure ravelled about and

    doubled on its tracks; and, for  is strehe cases

    of caddis-e grains of z.  Perhaps

    t, for you find some of the

    furroo make.  But the

    ice itself is t of most interest, t improve

    t opportunity to study it.  If you examine it closely the

    morning after it freezes, you find t ter part of the

    bubbles,  appeared to be , are against its

    under surface, and t more are continually rising from ttom;

    ively solid and dark, t is, you

    see ter t.  tieto an

    eiger, very clear and beautiful, and you see

    your face reflected in ty or

    forty of to a square inche

    ice narro half an inch long,

    sener, if te

    frese sply above another, like a

    string of beads.  But t so numerous nor

    obvious as times used to cast on stones to try

    trengthrough carried in

    air e bubbles

    beneato ty-eight hours

    after till perfect,

    tinctly by

    t as t two days had been

    very  noransparent,

    ser, and ttom, but

    opaque and hick was hardly

    stronger tly expanded under

    t and run toget ty; they were no

    longer one directly over anot often like silvery coins

    poured from a bag, one overlapping anothin flakes, as if

    occupying sligy of t

    oo late to study ttom.  Being curious to know w

    position my great bubbles occupied o the new ice, I

    broke out a cake containing a middling sized one, and turned it

    bottom uphe bubble,

    so t it  was whe

    lo close against ttish, or perhaps

    sligicular, er of an inch deep

    by four incer; and I o find t

    directly under ted  regularity

    in to t of five eighths of

    an incition the

    er and thick; and in many

    places tition  out downward,

    and probably t all under t bubbles,

    er.  I inferred t te number

    of minute bubbles  the under surface

    of t eacs

    degree, ed like a burning-glass on to melt

    and rot it.  ttle air-guns e to make

    the ice crack and whoop.

    At lengter set in good earnest, just as I had finished

    plastering, and to  had

    not o do so till t after nighe geese

    came lumbering in tling of wings,

    even after to alight in

    alden, and some flying looward Fair haven, bound

    for Mexico.  Several times,  ten

    or eleven oclock at nigread of a flock of geese,

    or else ducks, on the woods by a pond-hole behind

    my d honk or

    quack of they hurried off.  In 1845 alden froze

    entirely over for t time on t of the 22d of

    December, Flints and othe river having

    been frozen ten days or more; in 46, t the

    31st; and in 50, about th of

    January; in 53, t of December.  the snow had already covered

    th of November, and surrounded me suddenly

    er.  I  farto my shell,

    and endeavored to keep a brighin

    my breast.  My employment out of doors noo collect the dead

    , bringing it in my hands or on my shoulders, or

    sometimes trailing a dead pine tree under eaco my shed.  An

    old forest fence  days  haul for

    me.  I sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it  serving the god

    terminus.  eresting an event is t mans supper

    o , nay, you might say,

    steal, to cook it  are s.

    ts and e s

    of most of our too support many fires, but

    he young wood.

    the

    summer I  of pitche bark on,

    pinned toget.  this I

    ly on ter soaking then

    lying  ly sound, terlogged

    past drying.  I amused myself one er day his

    piecemeal across ting beh

    one end of a log fifteen feet long on my sher on

    tied several logs togethe, and

    t the end,

    dragged tely erlogged and almost as

    only burned long, but made a very  fire;

    nay, I t t tter for the

    pitcer, burned longer, as in a lamp.

    Gilpin, in  of t borderers of England, says

    t quot;ts of trespassers, and the houses and fences

    t,quot; ;considered as great

    nuisances by t law, and were severely punished under

    tures, as tending ad terrorem ferarum -- ad

    nocumentum forestae, etc.,quot; to tening of the

    detriment of t.  But I erested in tion

    of t more ters or woodchoppers,

    and as muche Lord arden himself; and if any

    part  myself by accident, I grieved

    lasted longer and

    of tors; nay, I grieved  dohe

    proprietors t our farmers w down

    a forest felt some of t awe whey

    came to t in t to, a consecrated grove (lucum

    conlucare), t is,  it is sacred to some god.

    tory offering, and prayed, ever god or

    goddess t to o me,

    my family, and cc.

    It is remarkable ill put upon wood even in

    try, a value more permanent and

    universal t of gold.  After all our discoveries and

    inventions no man  is as precious to

    us as it o our Saxon and Norman ancestors.  If their

    bo, ocks of it.  Micy

    years ago, says t the price of wood for fuel in New York and

    P;nearly equals, and sometimes exceeds, t of t

    al annually requires more

    to tance

    of tivated plains.quot;  In tohe

    price of  steadily, and tion is, how

    muc is to be t .  Mechanics

    and tradesmen  on no other errand,

    are sure to attend tion, and even pay a high price for

    ter t is now many

    years t men ed to t for fuel and the

    materials of ts: the

    Parisian and t, the farmer and Robin hood, Goody Blake and

    parts of t,

    till a feicks from

    t to her could I do

    them.

    Every man looks at ion.  I

    love to ter to

    remind me of my pleasing work.  I had an old axe which nobody

    claimed, er days, on the sunny side of

    t tumps  of my

    bean-field.  As my driver prophey warmed

    me ting they

    no fuel could give out more .  As for

    to get to quot;jumpquot; it;

    but I jumped ting a o

    it, made it do.  If it   least rue.

    A fe pine  treasure.  It is

    interesting to remember ill

    concealed in ten

    gone prospecting over some bare ch pine wood

    ood, and got out t pine roots.  t

    indestructible.  Stumps ty or forty years old, at least, will

    still be sound at the sapwood has all become

    vegetable mould, as appears by thick bark forming

    a ring level ant from the

    .  ithe

    marroore, yelloallow, or as if you ruck on a

    vein of gold, deep into t commonly I kindled my fire

    , wored up in my shed

    before t makes the

    woodche woods.  Once in a

    tle of ting

    too gave notice to the various

    s of alden vale, by a smoky streamer from my

    c I was awake.--

    Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,

    Melting t,

    Lark  song, and messenger of dawn,

    Circling above ts as t;

    Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form

    Of midnigs;

    By nigar-veiling, and by day

    Darkening t and blotting out the sun;

    Go th,

    And ask to pardon this clear flame.

    cut, t little of t,

    anster times left a good

    fire o take a er afternoon; and when I

    returned, ter ill alive and

    gloy t was as if I

    a c

    lived trusthy.  One

    day, ting  t I

    look in at t on fire; it was

    time I remember to icularly anxious on this

    score; so I looked and sa a spark  my bed, and I

    in and extinguis w had burned a place as big as my

    my ered a position, and

    its roof  I could afford to let t in

    t any er day.

    ted in my cellar, nibbling every tato, and

    making a snug bed even t after plastering and

    of bro animals love comfort and h

    as er only because they are so

    careful to secure them.  Some of my friends spoke as if I was coming

    to to freeze myself.  the animal merely makes a

    bed,  man,

    ment,

    and , instead of robbing  his bed, in

    ed of more cumbrous clotain

    a kind of summer in t of er, and by means of windows

    even admit t, and  thus he

    goes a step or tinct, and saves a little time for the

    fine arts.  to t blasts a

    long time, my orpid, whe

    genial atmospies and

    prolonged my life.  But t luxuriously tle to

    boast of in t, nor need rouble ourselves to speculate

    last destroyed.  It o

    cut time tle s from the

    norting from Cold Fridays and Great Sno a

    little colder Friday, or greater sno a period to mans

    existence on the globe.

    t er I used a small cooking-stove for economy, since

    I did not o; but it did not keep fire so he

    open fireplace.  Cooking  part, no longer a

    poetic, but merely a c ten, in

    toves, t o roast potatoes in the ashes,

    after tove not only took up room and

    scented t it concealed t as if I had

    lost a companion.  You can alhe

    laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies s of the

    dross and earted during the day.

    But I could no longer sit and look into tinent

    recurred to me h new force.--

    quot;Never, brigo me

    thy.

    but my  up?

    but my fortunes sunk so lo?

    th and hall,

    t welcomed and beloved by all?

    as tence too fanciful

    For our lifes common light, who are so dull?

    Did t gleam mysterious converse hold

    its too bold?

    ell, rong, for no

    Beside a ,

    a fire

    arms feet and o more aspire;

    By ilitarian heap

    t may sit doo sleep,

    Nor fear ts w walked,

    And  of talked.quot;