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A Visit to the Clinton Gingham-Mills—Behavior—The
Knowledge of an Unlearned Man—Snow-covered Hills—The
Walker Errant—Sauntering—Freedom—F. A. Michaux on
Certain Trees—Divine Communications—The Tameness of
English Literature—Quotations from Ovid—Panoramas
of the Rhine and the Mississippi—The Fertility
of America—Midwinter—Sir John Mandeville on the
Peoples of the Earth—A Society for the Diffusion
of Useful Ignorance—America the She Wolf To-day—The
Gregariousness of Man—The Edge of the Meadow—Fleets
of Ice-Flakes—Waterfalls within Us—The Ice-Flakes
again—Antiquity—The Health of the Farmer—Eating—The
Fallibility of Friends—Moral Freedom—Manners and
Character—Getting a Living—Actinism—The Floating
Crust of the Meadow—Mythology and Geology—Law and
Lawlessness—Carrying off Sims—Governor Boutwell—Concord
and Slavery—The Fugitive Slave Law—Slavery and the
Press—Mahomet—The Sentence of the Judge—The Servility
of Newspapers—A False Idea of Liberty—Real and Actual
Communications—The Cat—Love and Marriage.