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The Beginning of the Life at Walden—A House in
the Catskills—The Vital Facts of Life—Relics
of the Indians—Auxiliaries and Enemies of the
Bean-Field—Therien, the Canadian Woodchopper—A
Visit from Railroad Men—Life of Primitive Man—Wild
Mice—The Written and the Spoken Language—The Interest
and Importance of the Classics—The Fragrance
of an Apple—The Race of Man—The Mansions of the
Air—Echo—"The Crescent and the Cross"—Carnac—The
Heroic Books—Screech Owls—Bullfrogs—Nature and
Art—Childhood Memories of Walden Pond—Truth—John
Field, a Shiftless Irishman, and his Family—A
Hard and Emphatic Life—Language—Plastering the
House—Primitive Houses—The Cost of a House—The
Romans and Nature—Jehovah and Jupiter—Some Greek
Myths—Difficulty of Getting a Living and Keeping out
of Debt—The Fox as an Imperfect Man—Reading suggested
by Hallam's History of Literature—The Necessaries
of Life—A Dog Lost—Therien and the Chickadees—The
Evening Robin—The Earth as a Garden—A Flock of Geese.