Chapter I: 1850 (æt. 32-33) 3

The Religion of the Hindoos—Narrow Shoes—The Town of
Bedford—A Visit to Haverhill and the Dustin House—Taste
in Eating—Sawing Buttonwood Logs—The Insanity of
Heroes—The Sand Cherry—Life in a Small Meadow—Turtle and
Horned Pout—Limestone—The Energy of Our Ancestors—A New
Bosphorus—Sippio Brister’s Gravestone—Fences—Driving
Cows to Pasture—Setting Fire to the Woods—The
Incendiary—The View from Goodman’s Hill in Sudbury—A
Burner of Brush—Tending a Burning—The Regularity of the
Cars—The Levels of Life—A Proposed Method of Fighting
Wood-Fires—The Yezidis—Insects over the River—Cows in a
Pasture—Horses Fighting—The Advantages of a Fire in the
Woods—Walking by Night—An Indian Squaw—A Button from the
Marquis of Ossoli’s Coat—Bones on the Beach—Fresh Water
in Sand-Bars—Rags and Meanness—Tobacco Legislation—An
Ideal Friend—Conforming—A Drunken Dutchman—Legs as
Compasses—Walks about Concord—Meadow-Hay—The Old
Marlborough Road—Surface of Water—The Money-Digger—The
Railroad—Tall Ambrosia—The Ways of Cows—Flocks
of Birds—A Great Blue Heron—The Elm—Uncle Charles
Dunbar—Lines on a Flower growing in the Middle of the
Road—A Beautiful Heifer—Water the Only Drink—On the
River—Music—The Canadian Excursion—Living and Loving
one’s Life—Canadian Houses—A Frog in the Milk—Apostrophe
to Diana—Aground at Patchogue—The Relics of a Human
Body on the Beach—Echoes—Sawmills—Begging Indians—The
Indian and his Baskets—Uncle Charles on the Dock at New
York—Nature in November—The Approach of Winter—Changes
made in Views from the cutting down of Woods—Cats
run Wild—The Growth of a Wood—Canadian Greatcoats—A
Root Fence—Wild Apples—An Old Bone—A Miser and his
Surveyor—The Remains of a Coal-Pit—The Pickerel in the
Brooks—Wildness—The Attraction of the West—Frightened
Cows—The Passing of the Wild Apple—Begging
Governments—Old Maps—The First Cold Day—A New Kind of
Cranberry—The Discoveries of the Unscientific Man—The
Sportiveness of Cattle—Fair Haven Pond—Friends and
Acquaintances—Summer Days in Winter—A Muskrat on
the Ice—An Encampment of Indians at Concord—Indian
Lore—Indian Inventions—Instinct in Women—The Little
Irish Boy—Puffballs—An Ocean of Mist.