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        e them, I

        lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house

        he shore of alden Pond, in cord,

        Massacts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.

        I lived t present I am a sojourner

        in civilized life again.

        I s obtrude my affairs so muciy

        readers if very particular inquiries    been made by my

        townsmen ing my mode of life, whie would call

        imperti, t appear to me at all imperti,

        but, sidering tances, very natural ai.

        Some    I got to eat; if I did not feel lonesome; if I

        afraid; and to learn

        ion of my ine I devoted to cable purposes; and

        some, wained.

        I icular

        i io pardon me if I uake to anshese

        questions in t books, t person, is

        omitted; in t ai, in respect to egotism,

        is t remember t it is,

        after all, al person t is speaking.    I s

        talk so muc myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as

        unately, I am fio the narrowness

        of my experience.    Moreover, I, on my side, require of every er,

        first or last, a simple and sincere at of

        merely w    as

        o ant land; for if he has

        lived sincerely, it must ant land to me.    Perhaps

        ticularly addressed to poor students.    As

        for t of my readers, t sus as apply

        to trust t g on the

        coat, for it may do good service to    fits.

        I    so muche ese

        and Sandwico

        live in Ne your dition, especially your

        oution or circumstances in town, w

        it is,    it be as bad as it is, wher

        it ot be improved as .    I ravelled a good deal

        in cord; and everywhe

        inants o me to be doing penan a thousand

        remarkable ing exposed to

        four fires and looking in the sun; or hanging suspended,

        the heavens

        over t;until it bees impossible for to resume

        tural position,    of t

        liquids    pass into tomac;; or dwelling, ed for life,

        at t of a tree; or measuring heir bodies, like

        caterpillars, t empires; or standing on one leg on

        tops of pillars -- even these forms of scious penance are

        onishe ses which I daily

        ness.    twelve labors of rifling in parison

        aken; for they were only

        t these men slew or

        captured any monster or finishey have no friend

        Iolaus to burn    iron t of t as

        soon as one w up.

        I see young men, my to is to have

        ined farms, tle, and farming tools; for these

        are more easily acquired t rid of.    Better if they had been

        born in ture and suckled by a    t have

        seen    field to labor in.    ho

        made t ty acres,

        only ?    hey

        begin digging t

        to live a mans life, pus

        on as al soul

        he

        road of life, pus a bary-five feet by forty,

        its Augean stables never sed, and one hundred acres of land,

        tillage, moure, and !    tionless, who

        struggle ed encumbrances, find it

        labor enougo subdue and cultivate a fe of flesh.

        But men labor under a mistake.    tter part of the man is

        soon ploo t.    By a seeming fate, only

        called y, t says in an old book,

        laying up treasures    and thieves

        break teal.    It is a fools life, as they will find

        o t, if not before.    It is said t

        Deucalion and Pyrred men by tones over their heads

        behem:--

        Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum,

        Et dota damus qua simus ii.

        Or, as Raleig in his sonorous way,--

        "From ted is, enduring pain and care,

        Approving t our bodies of a stony nature are."

        So muco a blundering oracle, the

        stones over t seeing whey fell.

        Most men, even in tively free try, through mere

        ignorand mistake, are so occupied itious cares and

        superfluously coarse labors of life t its finer fruits ot be

        plucked by toil, are too clumsy

        and tremble too muc.    Actually, t

        leisure for a true iy day by day;    afford to sustain

        t relations to men; ed in the

        market.    ime to be anyt a mae.    how    he

        remember well h requires -- who has

        so often to use he him

        gratuitously sometimes, and recruit h our cordials, before we

        judge of    qualities of our nature, like the bloom on

        fruits,    be preserved only by t delicate    we

        do not treat ourselves nor one anotenderly.

        Some of you,    o live, are

        sometimes, as it    t

        some of you he dinners

        en, or for ts and shoes which are

        fast , and o to

        spend borroolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour.

        It is very evident w mean and sneaking lives many of you live,

        for my sigted by experience; als,

        trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very

        a slougins aes alienum, anothers brass,

        for some of till living, and dying,

        and buried by to pay, promising

        to pay, tomorrooday, insolvent; seeking to curry

        favor, to get , by    state-prison

        offenses; lying, flattering, voting, trag yourselves into a

        nutsy or dilating into an atmosphin and

        vaporous generosity, t you may persuade your neigo let you

        make , or , or

        you may lay up

        somet a sick day, someto be tucked away in an old

        c, or in a stog beering, or, more safely, in

        tter le.

        I sometimes

        say, as to attend to t somew fn form of

        servitude called Negro Slavery, tle

        masters t enslave bot is o have a

        Sout is o     of

        all y

        in man!    Look at teamster on to market by

        day y stir    duty

        to fodder and er    is iny to him pared

        erests?    Does not he drive for Squire

        Make-a-stir?    al, is he?    See how he cowers

        and sneaks,    being immortal nor

        divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a

        fame    pared

        e opinion.     a man t it

        is es, e.

        Self-emancipation even in t Indian provinces of the fand

        imagination --    t about?

        toilet cushions

        against t day, not to betray too green an i in their

        fates!    As if you could kill time    injuriernity.

        t desperation.     is called

        resignation is firmed desperation.    From te city you

        go into te try, and o sole yourself he

        bravery of minks and muskrats.    A stereotyped but unscious

        despair is cealed even under he games and

        amusements of mankind.    this es

        after    it is a ceristic of    to do

        desperate things.

        , to use teche

        c are true necessaries and means of

        life, it appears as if men ely che ode

        of living because t to any ot tly

        t.    But alert and ures

        remember t t is oo late to give up

        our prejudices.    No ,

        be trusted    proof.     everybody echoes or in silence

        passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falseo-morrow,

        mere smoke of opinion, ed for a cloud t would

        sprinkle fertilizing rain on t old people say you

        ot do, you try and find t you .    Old deeds for old people,

        and ne know enough once,

        perco fetco keep the fire a-going; new people

        put a little dry , and are whe globe

        o kill old people, as the phrase

        is.    Age is er, ructor

        as yout    profited so muc .    One may

        almost doubt if t man e

        value by living.    Practically, tant advice

        to give tial, and

        te reasons,

        as t believe; and it may be t t

        hey

        , and I

        to    syllable of valuable or even ear advice from

        my seniors.    told me not tell me

        anyto t to a great

        extent untried by me; but it does not avail me t tried

        it.    If I o

        reflect t tors said not.

        One farmer says to me, "You ot live oable food

        solely, for it furniso make bones ;; and so he

        religiously devotes a part of o supplying em h

        terial of bones; alks behind his

        oxen, wable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering

        ploe of every obstacle.    Some things are really

        necessaries of life in some circles, t helpless and diseased,

        will are

        entirely unknown.

        to some to have been gone

        over by ts and the valleys, and

        all to o Evelyn, "the wise

        Solomon prescribed ordinances for tances of trees; and

        tors en you may go into your

        neigo gat

        trespass, and    neig;    es has

        eve dires    our nails; t is, even h

        ter nor longer.    Undoubtedly

        tedium and ennui he

        variety and t mans

        capacities o judge of w he

        do by any prets, so little ried.    ever have

        been to, "be not afflicted, my child, for who

        so t t left undone?"

        e migry our lives by a tests; as, for

        insta t once

        a system of eart would

        ed some mistakes.    t t in which I

        ars are t riangles!

        distant and different beings in the

        universe are plating t t!    Nature

        and itutions.    ho

        s prospect life offers to anoter

        miracle take place to look thers eyes for

        an instant?    e she world in an hour;

        ay, in all tory, Poetry, Mythology! -- I

        knoartling and

        inf as this would be.

        ter part of w my neighbors call good I believe in my

        soul to be bad, and if I repent of anyt is very likely to be

        my good be demon possessed me t I behaved so well?

        You may say t thing you , old man -- you who have lived

        seventy years, not    ible

        voice .    One geion abandons

        terprises of anotranded vessels.

        I t rust a good deal more than we do.

        e may    so mucly bestow

        elseed to our o our

        strengt ay and strain of some is a well-nigh

        incurable form of disease.    e are made to exaggerate tance

        of     done by us! or, w if

        ermined not to live

        by fait; all t, at night

        ourselves to

        uainties.    So to

        live, revereng our life, and denying ty of ge.

        t there

        be drare.    All co

        plate; but it is a miracle waking place every

        instant.    fucius said, "to kno we knoe know, and

        t    kno kno is true kno;

        of tion to be a fact to

        anding, I foresee t all men at lengtablisheir

        lives on t basis.

        Let us sider for a moment    of trouble and

        ay , and    is

        necessary t roubled, or at least careful.    It would be

        some advao live a primitive and frontier life, the

        midst of an oution, if only to learn he

        gross necessaries of life and aken to obtain

        to look over ts, to

        see     men most only boug tores, w

        tored, t is,    groceries.    For the

        improvements of ages    little influen tial

        laence; as our skeletons, probably, are not to be

        distinguisors.

        By tever, of all t

        man obtains by ions, , or from

        long use ant to    few, if any,

        empt to

        do    it.    to many creatures t one

        necessary of life, Food.    to t is a few

        incable grass, er to drink; unless he

        Ser of t or tains se

        creation requires more ter.    the necessaries of

        life for man in te may, accurately enougributed

        uer, Clothing, and Fuel; for

        not till ertain true

        problems of life    of success.    Man has

        ied, not only    clothes and cooked food; and possibly

        from tal discovery of the

        sequent use of it, at first a luxury, arose t y

        to sit by it.    e observe cats and dogs acquiring the same sed

        nature.    By proper Ser and ately retain our

        oernal ; but    is,

        ernal    greater ternal, may not cookery

        properly be said to begin?    Daruralist, says of the

        inants of tierra del Fuego, t ere

        ting close to a fire, oo warm,

        to his

        great surprise, "to be streaming ion at undergoing

        sug."    So, old, the New hollander goes naked

        y, w

        impossible to bihe

        intellectualness of to Liebig, mans

        body is a stove, and food ternal

        bustion in t more, in warm less.

        t is t of a sloion, and disease and

        deatake place    of fuel, or

        from some defe t, t.    Of course the

        vital    is not to be founded    so much for

        analogy.    It appears, t, t the

        expression, animal life, is nearly synonymous he expression,

        animal ; for whe Fuel which keeps

        up to prepare t Food

        or to increase tion from    --

        Ser and Cloto retain t thus

        geed and absorbed.

        ty, to keep o

        keep tal    in us.     pains ake, not only

        er, but h our beds, which

        are s and breasts of birds to

        prepare ter er, as ts bed of

        grass and leaves at ts burro to

        plain t to cold, no less physical

        tly a great part of our ails.    the

        summer, in some climates, makes possible to man a sort of Elysian

        life.    Fuel, except to cook he sun

        is s are suffitly cooked by its

        rays; while Food generally is more various, and more easily

        obtained, and Cloter are wholly or half unnecessary.

        At t day, and in try, as I find by my own

        experience, a fes, a knife, an axe, a spade, a

        udious, lampligationery, and

        access to a fe to necessaries, and    all be

        obtai a trifling cost.    Yet some, not o ther

        side of to barbarous and une

        to trade for ten or ty years, in order t they may

        live -- t is, keep fortably

        last.    t simply kept fortably warm,

        but unnaturally ; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course

        a la mode.

        Most of ts of

        life, are not only not indispensable, but positive o the

        elevation of mankind.    it to luxuries and forts, the

        he poor.

        t philosophers, ese, hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were

        a class tward riches, none so

        ric muc t is remarkable t

        he more

        modern reformers and beors of their race.    None    be an

        impartial e ground

        of y.    Of a life of luxury the

        fruit is luxury, erature,

        or art.    t not

        p it is admirable to profess because it was once

        admirable to live.    to be a p merely to le

        ts, nor even to found a sc so to love o

        live acc to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence,

        magnanimity, and trust.    It is to solve some of the problems of

        life, not only tically, but practically.    t

        scier-like success, not

        kingly, not manly.    t to live merely by ity,

        practically as the

        progenitors of a noble raen.    But we ever?

        makes families run out?     is ture of the luxury which

        ees aroys nations?    Are    there is none of

        it in our ohe philosopher is in advance of his age even

        in thed,

        warmed, like emporaries.    how    a man be a philosopher and

        not maintain al    by better mether men?

        he several modes which I have

        described, ?    Surely not more he

        same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses,

        finer and more abundant clot, and

        ter fires, and taihings which

        are necessary to life, ternative to obtain

        ties; and t is, to adventure on life now, his

        vacation from oil    appears,

        is suited to t    its radicle do

        may nos s uph fidence.    hy has man

        rooted    t he

        same proportion into ts are

        valued for t t last in t, far

        from t treated like ts,

        ed only till they

        ed t, and often cut do top for this

        purpose, so t most    knoheir fl season.

        I do not mean to prescribe rules t and valiant natures,

        wher in heaven or hell, and

        percly and spend more lavishe

        ric,    ever impoveris knowing hey

        live -- if, io

        t and inspiration in precisely the

        present dition of t he fondness and

        ento some extent, I reyself in this

        number; I do not speak to tever

        circumstances, and t;

        -- but mainly to tented, and idly

        plaining of t or of times, whey

        mig eically

        and insolably of any, because their

        duty.    I also    seemingly    most

        terribly impoverised dross, but

        kno o use it, et rid of it, and their

        oters.

        If I stempt to tell o spend my life

        in years past, it hose of my readers who

        are someed s actual ory; it ainly

        astonis it.    I    some

        of terprises which I have cherished.

        In any    any , I have been

        anxious to improve time, and noty stick too;

        to stand on ting of ter and future,

        ; to toe t line.    You will

        pardon some obscurities, for ts in my trade than

        in most mens, a not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from

        its very nature.    I ell all t I kno it, and

        never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

        I long ago lost a urtle dove, and am

        still on trail.    Many are travellers I have spoken

        ing tracks and hey

        anso.    I    one or two whe

        tramp of the dove disappear behind a cloud,

        and to recover t them

        themselves.

        to anticipate, not t, if

        possible, Nature er,

        before yet any neigirring about his business, have I been

        about mine!    No doubt, many of my t

        from terprise, farmers starting for Boston in t,

        or    is true, I never assisted

        terially in , doubt not, it

        importanly to be present at it.

        So many autumn, ay, and er days, spent outside town,

        trying to    o    express!

        I , and lost my oo

        t.    If it her

        of tical parties, depend upon it, it would have appeared in

        tte    intelligence.    At otimes g

        from tory of some cliff or tree, to telegraph any new

        arrival;    at evening on tops for to fall,

        t I migc muc,

        manna-he sun.

        For a long time I er to a journal, of no very wide

        circulation,    to print the bulk

        of my tributions, and, as is too on ers, I got only

        my labor for my pains.    heir

        own reward.

        For many years I ed ior of snoorms and

        rain-storms, and did my duty fait of

        pat routes, keeping

        t all seasons, where

        testified to tility.

        I er tock of town, which give a

        faitrouble by leaping fences; and I

        o ted nooks and ers of the farm;

        t always know wher Jonas or Solomon worked in a

        particular field to-day; t was none of my business.    I have

        ered ttle-tree,

        te grape and the yellow

        violet, w hered else in dry seasons.

        In s, I    on time (I may say it

        boasting), faitill it became more and

        more evident t my to after all admit me into the

        list of toe

        allos, hfully,

        I    audited, still less accepted, still less

        paid aled.     set my    on t.

        Not long since, a strolling Indian    to sell baskets at the

        ;Do you wiso

        buy any baskets?" ;No,     any," he

        reply.    "!" exclaimed t out te, "do

        you mean to starve us?"    rious we neighbors

        so    to s, and, by

        some magiding followed -- o himself:

        I o business; I s; it is a thing which I

        do.    t ws he would have

        done , and t e mans to buy them.    he

        discovered t it    h

        to buy t least make    it

        o make somet h his while

        to buy.    I too    of a delicate texture, but

        I    made it o buy t not the

        less, in my case, did I t o hem, and

        instead of studying o make it o buy my

        baskets, I studied rato avoid ty of selling

        t one

        kind.    e any one kind at the

        others?

        Finding t my felloizens    likely to offer me any

        room in t

        I must s for myself, I turned my face more exclusively than ever

        to tter knoermio go into

        business at once, and not    to acquire tal, using

        suc.    My purpose in going to

        alden Pond    to live co live dearly t to

        transae private business    obstacles; to be

        of a little on sense,

        a little enterprise and busialent, appeared not so sad as

        foolish.

        I o acquire strict business s; they

        are indispensable to every man.    If your trade is ial

        Empire, ting , in some Salem

        ure enoug sucicles as

        try affords, purely native products, much id pine

        timber and a little granite, alive bottoms.    these will

        be good ventures.    to oversee all tails yourself in person; to

        be at once pilot and captain, ao buy and

        sell as; to read every letter received, and e

        or read every letter sent; to superis

        nigo be upon many parts of t almost at the same

        time -- often t freight will be discharged upon a Jersey

        so be your oelegraphe

        o keep up a

        steady despatcies, for tant and

        exorbitant market; to keep yourself informed of tate of the

        markets, prospects of e the

        tendencies of trade and civilization -- taking advantage of the

        results of all expl expeditions, using new passages and all

        improvements in navigation; -- cs to be studied, tion of

        reefs and neained, and ever, and

        ever, tables to be corrected, for by the error of

        some calculator ten splits upon a rock t should have

        reacold fate of La Prouse;

        -- universal sce to be kept pace udying the lives of all

        great discoverers and navigatreat adventurers and mercs,

        from o our day; in fine, at of

        stock to be taken from time to time, to kno is a

        labor to task ties of a man -- sud

        loss, of i, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it,

        as demand a universal knowledge.

        I    t alden Pond would be a good place for

        business, not solely on at of trade;

        it offers advantages    be good policy to divulge; it

        is a good port and a good foundation.    No Neva marso be filled;

        t everyw

        is said t a flood-tide, erly he

        Neva, . Petersburg from th.

        As to be entered into    the usual

        capital, it may not be easy to jecture w

        ill be indispensable to every sug, o be

        obtained.    As for e at oo tical part of

        tion, perener by ty and

        a regard for t, true

        utility.    Let o do recollect t t of

        clot, to retain tal , and sedly, in this

        state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of

        any necessary or important work may be aplis adding

        to    but ohough

        made by some tailor or dressmaker to ties, ot know

        t of    t fits.    tter than

        wooden o s

        beore assimilated to ourselves, receiving the

        il e to lay t such

        delay and medical appliances and some sucy even as our

        bodies.    No maood timation for having a

        patc I am sure t ter ay,

        only, to    least    and unpatched

        cloto    even if t is

        not mended, per vice betrayed is improvidence.    I

        sometimes try my acquaintances by sucests as this -- ho could

        cra seams only, over t behave

        as if t ts for life would be ruined if

        t.    It o o town

        aloon.    Often if an

        act o a gentlemans legs, t if a

        similar act o taloons, there is no

        ; for    ruly respectable, but

        ed.    e kno fe many coats and

        breec s, you standing

        sless by,    salute the scarecrow?    Passing a

        field t and coat on a stake, I

        reized ttle more

        en t.    I

        barked at every stranger h

        clot ed by a    is an

        iing question ain tive rank if

        ted of thes.    Could you, in such a case,

        tell surely of any pany of civilized men he

        most respected class?    urous

        travels round t to ,    so near home as

        Asiatic Russia, s s ty of wearing

        otravelling dress, o meet the

        auties, for s;ry, where ...

        people are judged of by t;    Even in our democratiew

        England toal possession of s

        maion in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor

        almost universal respect.    But t, numerous as

        to    to

        troduced sewing, a kind of work which you

        may call endless; a    least, is never done.

        A man o do    o

        get a o do it in; for    has lain

        dusty in t for an ierminate period.    Old shoes will

        serve a    -- if a hero

        ever    -- bare feet are older than shoes, and he    make

        to soires and legislative balls must

        s, coats to    as them.

        But if my jacket and trousers, my    and s to worship

        God in, t?    hes

        -- , actually , resolved into its primitive

        elements, so t it    a deed of cy to besto on some

        poor boy, by o be bestoill, or

        sh less?    I say, beware of all

        enterprises t require her a new wearer of

        clot a new man, hes be made

        to fit?    If you erprise before you, try it in your old

        clot, not someto do    someto

        do, or rato be.    Perhaps we should never procure a

        ne, y til we have so

        ducted, so enterprised or sailed in some    we feel like

        o retain it would be like keeping new

        tles.    Our moulting season, like t of the fowls,

        must be a crisis in our lives.    tires to solitary ponds

        to spend it.    ts its sloughe

        caterpillar its , by an internal industry and expansion;

        for clot our outmost cuticle and mortal coil.    Otherwise

        we sably

        cas last by our o of mankind.

        e don garment after garment, as if we grew like exogenous

        plants by addition .    Our outside and often thin and fanciful

        clotakes not of our

        life, and may be stripped off    fatal injury;

        our ts, stantly egument,

        or cortex; but our ss are our liber, or true bark, w

        be removed    girdling and so destroying the man.    I believe

        t all races at some seasons    to the

        s.    It is desirable t a man be clad so simply t he    lay

        s

        so pactly and preparedly t, if aake town, he ,

        like t te empty-

        ay.     is, for most purposes, as good as

        tai prices really

        to suit ers;    for five

        dollars, aloons for two

        dollars, cows for a dollar and a

        for a quarter of a dollar, and a er cap for sixty-two and a half

        ts, or a better be made at    a nominal cost, where is he so

        poor t, clad in suc, of

        be found o do him reverence?

        of a particular form, my tailoress

        tells me gravely, "t make t; not emphasizing

        t;t; at all, as if sed an auty as impersonal as

        tes, and I find it difficult to get made , simply

        because s believe t I mean    I am so

        rasence, I am for a moment

        absorbed in t, empo myself eacely t

        I may e at t, t I may find out by w degree

        of sanguinity ted to me, and y they

        may s me so nearly; and, finally, I am

        ined to ans any more

        emp;t; -- "It is true, t make them so

        retly, but t;    Of his measuring of me if she

        does not measure my cer, but only th of my shoulders,

        as it o bang t on?    e he Graces,

        nor t Fass h

        full auty.    t Paris puts on a travellers cap,

        and all times despair of

        getting anyte simple and    done in the

        o be passed through a powerful press

        first, to squeeze tions out of t they would

        not soo upon there would be some one

        in t in ched from an egg

        deposited t even fire kills these

        t your labor.    heless, we will

        not fet t some Egyptian w was o us by a

        mummy.

        On t it ot be maintai dressing

        ry risen to ty of an art.    At

        present men make s to .    Like shipwrecked

        sailors, t on    a

        little distance, wime, laug eachers

        masquerade.    Every geion laug t

        follo beume

        of     of the

        King and Queen of tume off a man is

        pitiful rotesque.    It is only the serious eye peering from and

        t er and

        secrate tume of any people.    Let aken h a

        fit of trappings    mood too.

        by a onball, rags are as being as

        purple.

        taste of men and terns

        keeps ing t they

        may discover ticular figure wion requires

        today.    turers    taste is merely

        terns whreads more

        or less of a particular color, the

        ot frequently    after the

        lapse of a season tter bees t fashionable.

        paratively, tattooing is not tom w is

        called.    It is not barbarous merely because ting is

        skin-deep and unalterable.

        I ot believe t our factory system is t mode by

        ion of tives is

        being every day more like t of t ot be

        , since, as far as I he

        principal object is, not t mankind may be well and ly clad,

        but, uionably, t corporations may be enriche long

        run men    only .    they should

        fail immediately, tter aim at something high.

        As for a Ser, I    deny t this is now a necessary

        of life, tanen    it

        for long periods in colder tries this.    Samuel Laing says

        t "the Laplander in his skin dress, and in a skin bag which he

        puts over    after night on

        tinguishe life of

        one exposed to it in any ;    hem asleep

        t ;t ;    But,

        probably, man did not live long on t disc the

        venience s, which

        pisfas of the house

        more t be extremely partial and

        occasional in tes wed in our

        ts er or thirds of

        t for a parasol, is unnecessary.    In our climate, in

        t    solely a c at night.    In

        ttes a he symbol of a days march, and a

        ro or painted on tree sig so

        many times t made se limbed and

        robust but t    seek to narrow his world and wall in a space

        sucted    first bare and out of doors; but

        t enougher, by

        dayliger, to say nothe

        torrid sun, would perhe bud if he had

        not made e to cloter of a house.    Adam

        and Eve, acc to ther

        cloted a , first of

        ions.

        e may imagiime whe human race,

        some enterprising mortal crept into a er.

        Every e extent, and loves to

        stay outdoors, even in    and cold.    It plays house, as well as

        inct for it.     remember the

        i    shelving rocks, or any

        approaco a cave?    It ural yearning of t portion,

        any portion of our most primitive aor will survived in

        us.    From to roofs of palm leaves, of bark

        and bougretcraw, of

        boards and sones and tiles.    At last,    w

        it is to live in ti more

        se

        distance.    It would be well, pero spend more of

        our days and nig any obstru bethe

        celestial bodies, if t did not speak so much from under a

        roof, or t d sing in caves,

        nor do doves cs.

        o struct a dwelling-

        beo exercise a little Yankee s after all

        a clue, a

        museum, an almsead.

        sider first    a ser is absolutely necessary.    I have

        seen Penobscot Indians, is of tton

        clot deep around them, and I

        t t to    deeper to keep out the

        my living ly, h freedom

        left for my proper pursuits, ion which vexed me even more

        t does nounately I am bee somew callous, I

        used to see a large box by t long by three

        nig

        suggested to me t every man    such a

        one for a dollar, and, , to

        admit t least, get into it    night, and

        he lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul

        be free.    t appear t, nor by any means a

        despicable alternative.    You could sit up as late as you pleased,

        and,    any landlord or

        .    Many a man is o deato

        pay t of a larger and more luxurious box w have

        frozen to deating.

        Ey is a subject reated y, but

        it ot so be disposed of.    A fortable house for a rude and

        lived mostly out of doors, was once made here

        almost entirely of sucerials as Nature furniso their

        e of t to the

        Massacts y, ing in 1674, says, "t of their

        ly, tigrees,

        slipped from t the sap is up, and

        made into great flakes, y timber, whey

        are green....    t are covered s whey make

        of a kind of bulrusly tig

        not so good as ty or a hundred

        feet long and ty feet broad....    I en lodged in their

        Englis;    he

        adds t ted and lined h

        well-wrougs, and were furnish various

        utensils.    tulate t

        of t suspended over the roof and moved

        by a string.    Sustance structed in

        a day or t most, and taken do up in a few hours; and

        every family os apartment in one.

        In tate every family ohe

        best, and suffit for its coarser and simpler s; but I think

        t I speak , the

        air s, and the savages

        ty not more than one half

        ter.    In toies, where

        civilization especially prevails, those who own a

        ser is a very small fra of t pay an

        annual tax for tside garment of all, bee indispensable

        summer and er, w

        o

        insist age of

        it is evident t ter because it costs so

        little, w

        afford to o; nor    ter afford to

        , ansax, the poor

        civilized man secures an abode whe

        savages.    An annual rent of from ty-five to a hundred dollars

        (try rates) entitles o t of the

        improvements of turies, spacious apartments,    paint and

        paper, Rumford fire-place, back plastering, Veian blinds, copper

        pump, spring lock, a odious cellar, and many ot

        t o enjoy things is so

        only a poor civilized man, w,

        is ric is asserted t civilization is a real

        advan tion of man -- and I t it is, though

        only tages -- it must be s it

        ter d making tly; and

        t of a t of w I will call life which is

        required to be exc, immediately or in the long run.    An

        average s per hundred

        dollars, and to lay up take from ten to fifteen years

        of t encumbered h a family --

        estimating t one dollar a

        day, for if some receive more, ot he

        must    more than half his life only before his wigwam

        instead, this is

        but a doubtful co

        excerms?

        It may be guessed t I reduce almost tage of

        y as a fund in stainst the

        future, so far as to the

        defraying of funeral expenses.    But per required to

        bury s to an important distin

        bet, they have

        designs on us for our be, in making the life of a civilized

        people an institution, in wo a

        great extent absorbed, in order to preserve and perfect t of the

        race.    But I age is at

        present obtained, and to suggest t o

        secure all tage    suffering any of tage.

        mean ye by saying t th you, or

        t ten srapes, ah

        are set on edge?

        "As I live, sait have occasion any

        more to use this proverb in Israel.

        "Beher, so also

        t si s;

        least as    for t

        part toiling ty, ty, or forty years, t

        they

        ed    h hired money --

        and    toil as t of their houses

        -- but only t paid for t.    It is true, the

        encumbrances sometimes outhe

        farm itself bees one great encumbrance, and still a man is found

        to in it, being ed , as he says.    On

        applying to to learn t t

        at oname a dozen in town wheir farms free and clear.

        If you ory of teads, inquire at the

        bank ually paid for

        is so rare t every neig

        to    if t has

        been said of ts, t a very large majority, even

        y-seven in a o fail, is equally true of the

        farmers.    ito ts, hem says

        pertily t a great part of t genuine

        peiary failures, but merely failures to fulfil ts,

        because it is inve; t is, it is ter t

        breaks do ts an infier,

        and suggests, beside, t probably not even three succeed

        in saving t are per a worse sense

        tly.    Bankruptd repudiatiohe

        springboards from s and turns

        its somersets, but tands on tic plank of

        famine.    Yet ttle S

        annually, as if all ts of tural mae were

        suent.

        to solve the problem of a livelihood

        by a formula more plicated tself.    to get his

        srings es in tle.    ite skill

        rap o catd

        independence, and turned a o it.

        the reason he is poor; and for a similar reason we are all

        poor in respect to a ts, though surrounded by

        luxuries.    As Chapman sings,

        "ty of men --

        -- for eartness

        All s rarefies to air."

        And he richer

        but t, and it be t    him.    As I

        uand it, t ied by Momus against the

        s; made it movable, by

        ;; and it may still

        be urged, for our y t we are

        often imprisoned rathe bad

        neigo be avoided is our own scurvy selves.    I know one or

        t least, in town, wion,

        o sell tskirts and move

        into t    been able to aplis, and only

        deat them free.

        Gra ty are able at last eito own or hire

        ts improvements.    ion has

        been improving our     equally improved the men who

        are to in t ed palaces, but it    so easy

        to create noblemen and kings.    And if ts

        are no er

        part of aining gross necessaries and forts merely,

        he former?

        But y fare?    Per will be found

        t just in proportion as some ward

        circumstances above thers have been degraded below him.

        terbalanced by the indigence of

        anothe

        alms;silent poor."    t to

        be tombs of t may be were

        not detly buried the ice

        of turns at nigo a    not so good as a

        is a mistake to suppose t, in a try whe

        usual evidences of civilizatio, tion of a very large

        body of tants may not be as degraded as t of savages.

        I refer to t noo to know

        t o look farto ties which

        every improvement in

        civilization; where I see in my daily walks human beings living in

        sties, and all er ,

        any visible, often imaginable, he forms of

        botly tracted by t of

        s of all their

        limbs and faculties is c certainly is fair to look at

        t class by winguishis

        geion are aplisoo, to a greater or less extent,

        is tion of tives of every denomination in England,

        w worko

        Ireland, we or enligs on

        trast tion of t of

        ther

        savage race before it act he civilized

        man.    Yet I    t t peoples rulers are as wise as

        tion only proves w

        squalidness may sist ion.    I hardly need refer now

        to tates le

        exports of try, and are taple produ of

        t to fine myself to to be in

        moderate circumstances.

        Most men appear o    a house is, and

        are actually they

        t t heir neighbors have.    As if

        one o    of coat    for

        or cap of woodchuck

        skin, plain of imes because    afford to buy him

        a cro is possible to i a ill more ve and

        luxurious t all    t man could not

        afford to pay for.    Sudy to obtain more of these

        t sometimes to be tent he

        respectable citizen tead example, the

        y of tain number of

        superfluous glo chambers for

        empty guests, before    our furniture be as

        simple as the

        beors of theosized as messengers

        from s to man, I do not see in my mind

        ai ture.

        Or o allo not be a singular allowance?

        -- t our furniture she Arabs, in

        proportion as ellectually

        present our tered and defiled , and a good

        ter part into t hole, and

        not leave he blushes

        of Aurora and t should be mans m work

        in tone on my desk, but I

        errified to find t to be dusted daily, when

        ture of my miill, and t

        t.    hen, could I have a furnished house?

        I    in t gathe

        grass, unless where man has broken ground.

        It is ted he fashions which

        tly folloraveller    t

        he publis presume

        o be a Sardanapalus, and if o tender

        mercies ely emasculated.    I t in

        to spend more on luxury than on

        safety and venience, and it tens    attaining to

        bee er ts divans, and

        ottomans, and sun-sal things, which

        aking    ed for the harem and

        te natives of tial Empire, whan

        so kno on a

        pumpkin and    all to myself t

        cus, h a free

        circulation, to he fancy car of an excursion

        train and breathe way.

        ty and nakedness of mans life in tive

        ages imply tage, at least, t t ill but a

        sojourner in nature.    h food and sleep, he

        plated , as it ent in

        the

        plains, or climbing tain-tops.    But lo! men he

        tools of tools.    tly plucked ts

        ree

        for ser, a ,

        but tled doten heaven.    e have

        adopted ity merely as an improved meture.

        e    for t a

        family tomb.    t    are the expression of mans

        struggle to free ion, but t of our

        art is merely to make tate fortable and t higher

        state to be fotten.    tually no pla this village

        for a , if any o us, to stand, for

        our lives, our reets, furnisal for

        it.    t a nail to ure on, nor a so

        receive t of a .    hen I sider how our

        and paid for, or not paid for, and ternal

        eanaged and sustained, I    t give

        or whe

        mantelpiece, a o to some solid and

        tion.    I ot but perceive t this

        so-called rid I do not

        get on in t of ts w, my

        attention being w

        test genuine leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is

        t of certain wandering Arabs, wo have cleared

        ty-five feet on level ground.    it factitious support, man

        is sure to e to eart dista

        questioo put to tor of suc

        impropriety is, ers you?    Are you one of ty-seven

        wions, and

        t your baal.

        t before tiful nor useful.    Before

        s t be

        stripped, and our lives must be stripped, aiful housekeeping

        aiful living be laid for a foundation: noaste for the

        beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where is no house

        and no housekeeper.

        Old Jo;onder- Providence," speaking of the

        first settlers of toemporary, tells us

        t "t ser

        under some ing t upon timber, they

        make a smoky fire against t t side."    they did

        not "provide t; says ;till the Lords

        blessing, brougo feed t; and t years

        crop ;to cut their bread very

        t;    tary of the Province of New

        ing in Dut of those

        ake up land tates more particularly t

        "therland, and especially in New England, who have no

        means to build farm first acc to their wishes, dig a

        square pit in t deep, as

        long and as broad as th

        rees or

        someto prevent this

        cellar    it overhead for a ceiling, raise a

        roof of spars clear up, and cover th bark reen sods,

        so t tire

        families for t being uood t

        partitions are ruo the

        size of thy and principal men in New England,

        in t

        dly, in order

        not to e time in building, and not to    food t season;

        sedly, in order not to disce poor lab people whey

        broughree or

        four years, ed to agriculture, they

        built them several

        t;

        In tors took there was a show of

        prude least, as if to satisfy the more

        pressing s first.    But are ts satisfied

        now?    hink of acquiring for myself one of our luxurious

        derred, for, so to speak, try is not yet

        adapted to ure, and ill forced to cut our

        spiritual bread far ten.

        Not t all arcectural or is to be ed even in the

        rudest periods; but let our    be lined y, where

        taement of the

        s overlaid .    But, alas! I have been inside

        one or t th.

        t so degee but t    possibly live

        in a cave or a oday, it certainly is better to

        accept tages, t, wion

        and industry of mankind offer.    In suchis,

        boards and shingles, lime and bricks, are cheaper and more easily

        obtaiable caves, or w

        quantities, or even empered clay or flat stones.    I speak

        uandingly on t, for I ed

        botically and practically.    ittle more

        o bee ric

        noion a blessing.    the civilized man is

        a more experienced and    to make e to my own

        experiment.
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