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HARVARD COLLEG

JUL 14 1906

LIBRARY

Mary Gogood fund

COPYRIGHT 1906 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. September, 1851 (Ær. 34)

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tional Proposal — Vegetation in Summer

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Perambulating the Bounds - Drought — The Moon's Light -

A Retired Life - The Telegraph Harp — A Dark Night -

Windy Autumnal Weather — River Scenery in Autumn — An

Irishman's Answer Milkweed Seeds Christian and

Heathen — A Hornets' Nest — Jays and Hawks -- An Educa-

- Birds on Grass

Stems - Hugh Miller The Railroads and the Farmers - A

Spruce Swamp - Red Maples — Aiding a Fugitive Slave — A

Moonlight Walk - George Minott — The Changing Leaves

Curled Strata in Rocks - Moonlight and Fairies - The Celes-

tial River - Fish-Spearers Echoes on the River - A Musk-

rat-House The Rainbow of the Rushes - Sweet Acorns

The Witch-Hazel - Beds of Leaves Relations with a Friend

-New-fallen Leaves - A Flock of Chickadees - George

Minott-The Sound of a Bell - Minott's Squirrel-Hunting-

Zoological Analogies - On the River in a Wind - Boats of

Various Patterns · An Unruly Boat — Surveying — A Dream

Wild Apples.

CHAPTER II. November, 1851 (ÆT. 34)

Statements Gossamer Cobwebs A Canoe Birch

Mountain Brook - The Hemlock - Dudley Pond - Long

Pond Nonesuch Pond - W. E. Channing Facts A

Small Pond

of Skin A Bright November Day - Softness — Terra Firma
in Writing Channing Minott Moonrise A Hard

An Evening Party - Talking to the Deaf - Names

and Men - Revelation — The Church Elusive Night

Thoughts - The Hooting of an Owl - The Woodchopper

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and the Naturalist

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- A Strange Accident Old Mr. Joseph
Hosmer - Melody and Noise - Former Concord Houses -
A November Sunset

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A Precipice of Pine.

CHAPTER III. December, 1851 (ÆT. 34)

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Sortes Virgilianae A Blundering Irishman- The Advan-
tages of Varied Employment - The Real Form of a Man
Ice Foliage - Pine Woods in Winter — Polite Conversation
A Soaring Hawk - Repentance - Difficulties with Friends
My Coldness-Little Johnny Riordan - A Walk on the Ice
-Pine Grosbeaks The Architecture of the Snow - The
Beauty of Clouds Science and Imagination - Speak for
Yourself - Weary Oxen - The Western Sky at Sunset- A
January Thaw in December — A Mild Winter Day — The
Fall of a Pine Sand Foliage - An Old Irishwoman A
Misunderstanding A Female Lecturer - A Large Pine.

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CHAPTER IV. January, 1852 (ÆT. 34)

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One Mood the Natural Critic of Another - A Warm Night in
Winter Felling a Large Tree - Moonshine - The Tele-
graph Harp Snow on Trees - A Snow-Bow Miss Mary
Emerson Haller on Linnæus

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Greenough and Architec-
ture Seeing and Being - Sky and Clouds - The Reckless-
ness of Horses — A Haycock in Winter - Governor Boutwell
as a Lecturer English Comfort - King Olaf the Saint
Minott's Hens - Hauling Mill-Logs - The Relation of Men
to Mankind Bill Wheeler's Life and Death - Borrowing a
Dipper - A Simple-minded Pauper - Shaming the Impudent
The Sky and the Mind - The Littleton Giant - Stories of
Miss Emerson A Chinese Steamboat — Carting out Muck
- Newspapers and the News — A Battle of Ants — Higginson
as a Lecturer
Why I left the Woods The Encircling
Woods - Reading one's Papers to a Friend-Thoughts —
Making Conversation — True Invitations — The Telegraph
Harp-A Fair Sunset The Cup of Inspiration - Dry
Leaves on the Snow- - A Canadian Winter- Mr. Foster's
Preaching-Cat-tail Down - Memories of Walden Sum-

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