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.

ILLUSTRATIONS

WHITE VIOLETS, Carbon photograph (page 304) Frontispiece

VIEW FROM ANNURSNACK HILL Colored plate

HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN 1854, FROM THE
ROWSE CRAYON IN THE CONCORD PUBLIC
LIBRARY 1

FROST CRYSTALS AT THE MOUTH OF A HOLE
IN A BANK 22

VIEW FROM ANNURSNACK HILL 84

TREES REFLECTED IN THE RIVER 140

WINTER LANDSCAPE FROM FAIRHAVEN HILL 296