A Dog Lost—Therien and the Chickadees—The Evening Robin—The Earth as a Garden—A Flock of Geese.
CHAPTER VIII. 1845-1847 (Æt. 27-30) 403
The Hero—At Midnight's Hour—Wordsworth—Dying Young—The Present Time—Exaggeration—Carlyle's Discovery that he was not a Jackass—Longevity—Life and Death of Hugh Quoil, a Waterloo Soldier—Quoil's Deserted House—Old Clothes—Former Inhabitants of the Walden Woods—The Loon on Walden Pond—Ducks and Geese—The Pack of Hounds—An Unsuccessful Village—Concord Games—Animal Neighbors—Carlyle's Use of the Printer's Art—Northern Slavery—Brister and Zilpha—Making Bread—Emerson and Alcott—A Rabbit—A Town Officer.
CHAPTER IX. 1837-1847 (Æt 20-30) 438
Friends—The Loading and Launching of the Boat—Gracefulness—On the Merrimack—The Era of the Indian—Fate of the Indian—Criticism's Apology—Life—Suspicion—The Purple Finch—Gower's Poetry—Light—Indian Implements—Success in Proportion to Average Ability—Kindness—Fog—The Attitude of Quarles and his Contemporaries towards Nature—The Mystery of Life—Three-o'clock-in-the-Morning Courage—A Recent Book—Museums—Some Old English Poets—Our Kindred—Friendship—Skating after a Fox—To a Marsh Hawk in the Spring—The Gardener—A Fisherman's Account at the Store—Finny Contemporaries—Marlowe—Thaw—Modern Nymphs—Living by Self-Defense—The Survival of the Birds—The Slaughter-House—The Tragedy of the Muskrat—Carlyle not to be Studied—The Subject of the Lecture—The Character of our Life—The Sovereignty of the Mind—Coöperation.
