Sometimes I he

        village to my ohe

        catg

        of it.

        .    I    heard

        so muc over t-fern the

        pigeons are all asleep upon ts -- no flutter from them.

        as t a farmers noon he woods

        just noo boiled salt beef and cider and

        Indian bread.     does not

        eat need not work.    I wonder hey have reaped.    ho would

        live the barking of Bose?

        And oo keep brighe devils door-knobs, and

        scour ubs t day!    Better not keep a house.    Say, some

        ree; and ties!    Only a

        apping.    Ooo hey

        are born too far into life for me.    I er from the spring,

        and a loaf of broling

        of t some ill-fed village o the

        instinct of t pig hese

        er t es on apace; my

        sumacbriers tremble. -- E, is it you?    how do

        you like to-day?

        Poet.    See ts test

        to-day.    t in old paintings,

        not in fn lands -- unless whe

        coast of Spain.    ts a true Mediterranean sky.    I t, as I

        o get, aen to-day, t I might go

        a-fiss true industry for poets.    It is the only

        trade I s along.

        .    I ot resist.    My brown bread will soon be gone.    I

        I am just cluding a serious

        meditation.    I t I am .    Leave me alone,

        t t    be delayed, you shall be

        digging t mean h in

        ts, he race

        is nearly extinct.    t of digging t is nearly equal to

        t of catcite is not too keen; and

        to yourself today.    I o set

        in ts, whe

        jo    I may    you one o every

        turn up, if you look s of the

        grass, as if you

        be uno be

        very nearly as tances.

        alone.    Let me see; whinks I was nearly

        in t at this angle.    Shall I

        go to ation

        to an end,    occasion be likely to offer?    I

        o things as ever I was

        in my life.    I fear my ts    e bae.    If it

        hey make us an

        offer, is it o say, e ?    My ts have

        left no track, and I ot find t    t I

        ry these

        tences of futsee; tc state about again.

        I kno asy.    Mem.

        t one opportunity of a kind.

        Poet.    , is it too soon?    I    just

        teen w or

        undersized; but t cover

        up te toe; a

        s finding the skewer.

        .    ell, ts be off.    So the cord?

        t ter be not too high.

        s which we behold make a world?

        these species of animals for his neighbors; as if

        not a mouse could    t

        Pilpay & Co.    animals to t use, for they are all

        beasts of burden, in a sense, made to carry some portion of our

        ts.

        ted my    the on ones, which

        are said to roduced into try, but a ive

        kind not found in t oo a distinguished

        naturalist, and it ied him much.    hen I was building, one of

        ts    underhe

        sed floor, and s out t regularly

        at luncime and pick up t my feet.    It probably had

        never seen a man before; and it soon became quite familiar, and

        would run over my s could readily asd

        t impulses, like a squirrel, w

        resembled in its motions.    At length my elbow on

        t ran up my clothes, and along my sleeve, and

        round and round t the

        latter close, and dodged and played at bopeep ; and w

        last I ill a piece of c

        came and nibbled it, sitting in my ers

        fad paws, like a fly, and walked away.

        A p in my se in a

        pine ridge (tetrao

        umbellus), w my windows,

        from to t of my house, clug and

        calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself

        the young suddenly disperse on your approach,

        at a signal from t them away,

        and tly resemble t many a

        traveler    in t of a brood, and he

        whe old bird as she flew off, and her anxious calls and

        metract tention,

        suspeg t imes

        roll and spin round before you in suc you

        ot, for a fes, detect ure it is.    the

        young squat still and flat, often running their heads under a leaf,

        and mind only tions given from a distanor

        hemselves.    You

        may even tread on te,

        disc t such

        a time, and still t to ther and

        tinct, o squat t fear or trembling.    So

        perfect is tinct, t once, whe

        leaves again, and one actally fell on its side, it was found

        ily tion ten minutes afterward.

        t callo birds, but more perfectly

        developed and precocious even t

        yet i expression of their open and serene eyes is very

        memorable.    All intelligence seems reflected in t

        not merely ty of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by

        experience.    Suc born w is

        coeval    reflects.    t yield another

        sucraveller does not often look into such a limpid

        or reckless sportsman often ss t at

        sucime, and leaves ts to fall a prey to some

        pro or bird, radually mingle he deg leaves

        wched by a hen

        tly disperse on some alarm, and so are lost, for they

        never hese were

        my hens and chis.

        It is remarkable ures live hough

        secret in till sustain the

        neigoed by ers only.    ired the

        otter mao live o be four feet long, as big

        as a small boy, per any ting a glimpse of

        he woods behind where my house

        is built, and probably still    night.

        only I rested an    noon, after

        planting, and ate my lunctle by a spring which was

        ters

        h a

        succession of desding grassy ch pines,

        into a larger    there, in a very secluded and

        s, under a spreading    a ,

        firm so sit on.    I    the spring and made a well of

        clear gray er, ,

        and t for t every day in midsummer,

        oo, the woodcock led her

        brood, to probe t a foot above them down

        troop be at last, spying me,

        she would leave her young and circle round and round me, nearer and

        ill , pretending broken wings and

        legs, to attract my attention, a off her young, who would

        already aken up t, wiry peep, single

        file ted.    Or I he

        young    bird.    too turtle

        doves sat over ttered from bougo boughe

        soft we pines over my he red squirrel, c down

        t bougicularly familiar and inquisitive.    You

        only need sit still long enougtractive spot in the woods

        t all its inants may ex to you by turns.

        I o events of a less peaceful cer.    One day

        to my umps, I

        observed ts, ther much larger, nearly

        ending her.

        go, but struggled and led

        and rolled on tly.    Looking farther, I was

        surprised to find t tants,

        t it    a duellum, but a bellum, a wo races of

        ants, tted against tly two

        red oo one black.    these Myrmidons covered all

        the ground was already

        stre he only

        battle tle-field I ever

        trod ernee he red

        republis on ts on the

        ot, yet

        any    I could

        so resolutely.    I c    locked in each

        ottle sunny valley amid t

        noonday prepared to figill t do out.

        tened o his

        adversarys front, and tumblings on t field never

        for an instant ceased to gna one of ,

        o go by the

        stronger blae daso side, and, as I saw on

        looking nearer, ed him of several of his members.

        t inacity ted

        t disposition to retreat.    It    t their

        battle-cry ;quer or die."    In there came along

        a single red ant on tly full of

        excitement,    taken

        part in ttle; probably tter, for    none of his

        limbs; urn h his shield or

        upon it.    Or perce he was some Achilles, who had nourished his

        , and o avenge or rescue roclus.    he

        sa from afar -- for the blacks were nearly

        till be

        stood on ants; then,

        ity, he black warrior, and

        enced io of    fore leg,

        leaving to select among here were

        ted for life, as if a ra had been

        ied s to shame.    I should

        not ime to find t their

        respective musical bands stationed on some emi chip, and playing

        tional airs to excite the

        dying batants.    I ed somehey had

        been men.    t, the difference.    And

        certainly t t recorded in cord ory, at

        least, if in tory of America, t s

        parison , or for

        triotism and heroism displayed.    For numbers and for age

        it erlitz or Dresden.    cord Fighe

        patriots side, and Lut

        trick -- "Fire! fods sake fire!" -- and thousands

        se of Davis and    one hireling

        t t it    for, as

        mucors, and not to avoid a tax on their

        tea; and ts of ttle ant and

        memorable to t s as ttle of Bunker

        least.

        I took up ticularly

        described ruggling, carried it into my

        under a tumbler on my o see the issue.

        o t-mentioned red ant, I sa,

        t the near fore leg of his enemy,

        orn

        aals o the black

        e ly too to

        pierce; and th

        ferocity suce.    truggled half an hour

        longer uumbler, and whe black soldier

        ill

        living ly

        trop ill apparently as firmly fastened as

        ever, and ruggles, being

        feelers and    of a leg, and I kno how many

        oto divest    lengter half

        an    off

        over t crippled state.    her he finally

        survived t bat, and spent the remainder of his days in some

        el des Invalides, I do not kno I t t ry

        be er.    I never learned wy was

        victorious, nor t I felt for t of

        t day as if I ed and harrowed by

        nessing truggle, ty and age, of a tle

        before my door.

        Kirby and Speell us t ttles of ants have long been

        celebrated and te of t huber

        is to hem.

        "AEneas Sylvius," say t;after giving a very circumstantial

        at of one tested    obstinacy by a great and small

        species on trunk of a pear tree," adds t "tion was

        fougificate of Eugenius the presence of

        Nicoriensis, an emi lahe whole,

        ory of ttle est fidelity."    A similar

        e bet and small ants is recorded by Olaus Magnus,

        in o have buried

        t left t

        enemies a prey to t o the

        expulsion of tyrant    t;    the

        battle ook pla the Presidency of Polk, five

        years before ters Fugitive-Slave Bill.

        Many a village Bose, fit only to course a mud-turtle in a

        victualling cellar, sported ers in t

        ter, and iually smelled at old fox

        burrows and woodc cur

        ill inspire a natural

        terror in its denizens; -- now far behind his guide, barking like a

        e bull toself for

        scrutiny, tering off, bending t,

        imagining t rack of some stray member of the

        jerbilla family.    Once I o see a cat walking along

        tony shey rarely wander so far from

        ual.     domestic cat,

        he

        hy behavior, proves herself more

        native tants.    Once, when berrying, I

        met    tens in te hey

        all, like their backs up and were fiercely

        spitting at me.    A fehere was

        ;" in one of the farm-houses in Lin

        o see her in

        June, 1842, sing in t (I

        am not sure he more

        on pronoun), but ress told me t so the

        le more than a year before, in April, and was

        finally taken into t she was of a dark brownish-gray

        color, e spot on , and , and had a

        large busail like a fox; t ihick

        and flatted out along ripes ten or twelve

        incwo and a half wide, and under her    like a muff,

        tted like felt, and in the spring

        t;;

        t it    flying squirrel or some other wild

        animal, o naturalists,

        prolifi and

        domestic cat.    t kind of cat for me to

        keep, if I    any; for s cat be winged

        as well as his horse?

        In to

        moult and bath his wild

        laug rumor of he

        Mill-dam sportsmen are on t, in gigs and on foot, two

        a rifles and ical balls and

        spy-glasses.    tling tumn

        leaves, at least teo one loon.    Some station themselves on

        t, for t be

        om; if    e up t nohe

        kind October ling the

        surface of ter, so t no loon    be hough

        he woods resound

        he waves generously rise and dash angrily,

        taking sides er-fosmen must beat a

        retreat to tooo

        often successful.     to get a pail of er early in the

        m I frequently saately bird sailing out of my cove

        o overtake , in

        order to see ely

        lost, so t I did not discover imes, till the

        latter part of t I che

        surface.     off in a rain.

        As I ober

        afternoon, for suctle on to the lakes,

        like the pond for a

        loon, suddenly one, sailing out from tohe middle a

        fe of me, set up rayed himself.

        I pursued    when he came up I was

        I miscalculated the

        dire ake, and y rods apart when he came

        to time, for I o erval;

        and again han

        before.     I could not get hin half

        a dozen rods of ime, he surface,

        turning , er and

        tly e up

        er and at test

        distance from t.    It was surprising how quickly he made up

        o execution.     oo

        t part of t be driven from it.    hile

        o divine

        in mine.    It ty game, played on th

        surface of t a loon.    Suddenly your

        adversarys che problem is

        to place yours o wimes he

        edly on te side of me, having

        apparently passed directly u.    So long-winded was he

        and so un w he would

        immediately plunge agai could divine

        w be

        speeding ime and ability to visit

        ttom of ts deepest part.    It is said t loons

        in ty feet behe

        surface,    for trout -- than

        t.     to see tor

        from anot he

        appeared to knohe surface,

        and swice I saple where he

        approac put    to reoitre, and

        instantly dived again.    I found t it o rest

        on my oars and    o endeavor to calculate

        wraining my

        eyes over tartled by his

        u wer displaying so much

        ing, did ray    he came up by

        t loud laug e breast enougray him?    he

        .    I could only he

        splaser ed

        after an hour he seemed as fresh as ever, dived as willingly, and

        s fart first.    It o see how

        serenely    he

        surface, doing all t beh.    his usual

        note er, yet some of a

        er-fo occasionally, w

        successfully and e up a long ered a long-drawn

        u of a han any bird; as

        s o tely howls.

        t sound t is ever heard

        he

        laugs, fident of his own resources.

        time overcast, th

        t I could see w hear him.

        e breast, tillness of thness of

        ter     lengty rods

        off, tered one of the

        god of loons to aid ely the

        east and rippled ty

        rain, and I    he loon

        answered, and    him

        disappearing far aumultuous surface.

        For cad

        veer and sman; tricks

        ise in Louisiana bayous.

        o rise times circle round and round

        and over t a siderable , from whey could

        easily see to otes in the

        sky; and, hey

        tle doing fliger of a mile on to

        a distant part    y t

        by sailing in t knohey love

        its er for t I do.
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