only new

        and ser routes to many points, but neheir surfaces

        of ts Pond,

        after it en paddled about and

        skated over it, it edly ra I

        could t Baffins Bay.    the Lin hills rose up

        arou tremity of a snowy plain, in w

        remember to ood before; and t an

        ierminable distance over t heir

        her

        loomed like fabulous creatures, and I did not know whey were

        giants mies.    I took t to lecture in

        Lin in travelling in no road and passing no house

        beture room.    In Goose Pond, which lay

        in my s d, and raised their s high

        above t.

        alden, being like t usually bare of snoh only

        serrupted drifts on it, was my yard where I could walk

        freely    deep on a level elsewhere

        and to treets.    there, far from

        treet, and except at very long intervals, from the

        jingle of sleiged, as in a vast moose-yard

        rodden, over doh

        snoling h icicles.

        For sounds in er nigen in er days, I heard

        t melodious note of a ing oely far;

        sucruck h a

        suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of alden ood, and

        quite familiar to me at last, t

        .    I seldom opened my door in a er evening

        ; he

        first ted somew like how der do; or

        sometimes    in ter,

        before t nine oclock, I artled by

        tepping to the

        sound of tempest in they flew low

        over my oward Fair haven,

        seemingly deterred from settling by my ligheir odore

        .    Suddenly an unmistakable

        endous voice

        I ever ant of t regular

        intervals to termio expose and disgrace this

        intruder from ing a greater pass and

        volume of voi a native, and boo- of cord horizon.

        do you mean by alarming tadel at time of night

        secrated to me?    Do you t napping at su

        I    got lungs and a larynx as well as

        yourself?    Boo-

        t, if you had a

        discriminating ear, t ts of a cord such

        as these plains never saw nor heard.

        I also

        bed-fello part of cord, as if it less in its

        bed and urn over, roubled ulend had

        dreams; or I ,

        as if some one eam against my door, and in the m

        er of a mile long and a third

        of an inch wide.

        Sometimes I ,

        in moonligs, in searcridge or ame, barking

        raggedly and demoniacally like forest dogs, as if lab h some

        ay, or seeking expression, struggling fo be dogs

        reets; for if ake to

        our at, may t be a civilization going on among brutes

        as o me to be rudimental, burrowing men,

        still standing on ting transformation.

        Sometimes one came o my tracted by my light, barked

        a vulpine curse at me, and treated.

        Usually the

        dahe house,

        as if sent out of the

        er I t    , which had

        not got ripe, on to t by my door, and was amused by

        s of ted by it.

        In ts came regularly and made a

        y meal.    All day long t, and

        afforded me mucertai by their manoeuvres.    One would

        approac first he

        sno by fits and starts like a leaf blohe wind, now a

        fee of energy, making

        inceivable e ;trotters," as if it were for a wager,

        and no    never getting on more than half

        a rod at a time; and th a ludicrous

        expression and a gratuitous somerset, as if all the

        universe were eyed on ions of a squirrel, even

        in t solitary recesses of t, imply spectators as

        mug more time in delay and

        circumspe to ance

        -- I never sahen suddenly, before you could say

        Jack Robinson, op of a young pitch pine, winding

        up ators, soliloquizing and

        talking to all t time -- for no reason t I

        could ever detect, or .    At length

        ing a suitable ear, frisk about

        in tain trigorical o topmost stiy

        wood-pile, before my window, whe face, and

        t for ime to

        time, nibbling at first voraciously and the half-naked cobs

        about; till at lengty still and played h his

        food, tasting only the ear, which was

        ick by one paw, slipped from his careless

        grasp ao t it h a

        ludicrous expression of uainty, as if suspeg t it had

        life,    made up    it again, or a new one,

        or be off; noening to    was in

        ttle impudent felloe many an ear in

        a forenoon; till at last, seizing some longer and plumper one,

        siderably bigger t, he

        out    to tiger h a buffalo, by

        t pauses, scratch

        it as if it oo he while, making

        its fall a diagonal between a perpendicular and al, being

        determio put it t any rate; -- a singularly frivolous

        and    to where he

        lived, per to top of a piree forty or fifty

        rods distant, and I erre the

        ions.

        At lengt screams were heard

        long before, as th of

        a mile off, and in a stealt from

        tree to tree, nearer and nearer, and pick up the

        squirrels ting on a pitchey

        attempt to se a kernel woo big for

        ts and cer great labor they disge

        it, and spend an o crack it by repeated blows

        ly t much

        respect for t t first s to

        aking heir own.

        Meanwhe chickadees in flocks, which, pig up

        to t twig and,

        plag t their

        little bills, as if it    in till they were

        suffitly reduced for ts.    A little flock of

        titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my he

        crumbs at my door,    flitting lisping notes, like the

        tinkling of icicles in tly day day

        day, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery phe-be

        from t at length one

        alig

        ticks    fear.    I once    upon my

        s while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I

        felt t I inguis circumstahan I

        s I could he squirrels

        also gre last to be quite familiar, and occasionally stepped

        upon my s    way.

        yet quite covered, and agaihe

        end of er, h hillside and

        about my ridges came out of the woods m and

        evening to feed the

        partridge bursts away on whe

        dry leaves and the

        sunbeams like golden dust, for t to be scared

        by er.    It is frequently covered up by drifts, and, it is said,

        "sometimes plunges from on o t snow, w remains

        cealed for a day or t;    I used to start the open land

        also,    suo "bud" the

        rees.    to

        particular trees,    for them,

        and tant orc t a little.    I

        am glad t tridge gets fed, at any rate.    It is Natures

        own bird w drink.

        In dark er ms, or in s er afternoons, I

        sometimes h

        o resist tinct of the chase,

        and te of ting- intervals, proving t man was

        in t no fox bursts forth on

        to their

        Actaeon.    And per evening I see ters returning h a

        single brusrailing from tropheir

        inn.    tell me t if the

        frozeraight line

        away no foxake ,    his pursuers

        far beops to rest and listen till they e up, and when

        o s,

        imes, however, he will run upon a wall many rods, and

        to one side, and o kno er

        retain .    A er told me t he once saw a fox

        pursued by    out on to alden whe ice was covered

        urn to the

        same s    the

        st.    Sometimes a pag by themselves would pass my door,

        and circle round my    regarding me,

        as if afflicted by a species of madness, so t nothing could

        divert t.    til they fall upon

        t trail of a fox, for a wise hing

        else for to my    from Lexington to

        inquire after    made a large track, and had been

        ing for a     the wiser

        for all I told ime I attempted to answer his

        questions errupted me by asking, " do you do ;    he

        a dog, but found a man.

        One old er o bathe

        in alden once every year , and at such

        times looked in upoold me t many years ago ook his gun

        oernoon and    out for a cruise in alden ood; and as he

        he cry of hounds approag, and

        ere long a fox leaped to the road, and as quick as

        t leaped t of t bullet

        touched him.    Some way behind came an old hound and her

        t, ing on t, and

        disappeared again in te in ternoon, as he was

        resting in the voice of

        tohe fox; and on

        the wo sounding

        nearer and nearer, nohe Baker Farm.

        For a long time ood still and listeo t

        to a ers ear, whe

        solemn aisles h an easy c pace, whose sound was cealed

        by a sympatic rustle of t and still, keeping the

        round, leaving his pursuers far behind; and, leaping upon a rock

        amid t ered listening, o the

        er.    For a moment passioraiers arm; but

        t     follow

        t he fox, rolling over

        ter still kept his place

        and listeo till on the near

        heir demoniac cry.

        At lengt into vieo the ground,

        and snapping tly to the rock;

        but, spying the dead fox, she suddenly ceased her hounding as if

        struck dumb , and walked round and round him in

        silence; and one by one her,

        o silence by tery.    ter came

        forood in t, and tery hey

        ed in silence whe brush

        a urned off into t

        evening a eston squire came to ters cottage to

        inquire for old hey had been

        ing on t from eston er

        told     ther

        deed it aed.     find    night,

        but t day lear t up

        at a farm, whey

        took ture early in the m.

        ter ting, who

        used to    bears on Fair heir skins

        for rum in cord village; wold    he had seen a

        moose tting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne -- he

        pronou Bugine -- o borrohe

        "ast Book" of an old trader of town, wain,

        toative, I find try.    Jan.

        18t;Jo;; t

        noton

        "by 1/2 a Catt skin 0--1--4+"; of course, a , for

        Stratton    in t have

        got credit f less noble game.    Credit is given for

        deerskins also, and till preserves

        t deer t y, and

        anotold me ticulars of t in which his uncle

        ers were formerly a numerous and merry crew

        Nimrod wch up a leaf by

        train on it wilder and more melodious, if

        my memory serves me, ting-horn.

        At midnigimes met h hounds

        in my pat t of my

        and silent amid till I had

        passed.

        Squirrels and ed for my store of nuts.    there

        co four inches

        in diameter, wer -- a

        Norer for they

        o mix a large proportion of pine bark her

        diet.    trees ly flouris

        midsummer, and many of t, tely

        girdled; but after anoter suc exception dead.

        It is remarkable t a single mouse shus be allowed a whole

        piree for its dinner, gnaead of up and do;

        but per is necessary in order to trees, which are

        to grow up densely.

        the hares (Lepus Amerius) were very familiar.    One had her

        form under my er, separated from me only by the

        fl, and sartled me eacy departure

        ir -- triking her head

        against timbers in o e round my

        door at dusk to nibble tats w,

        and    they could hardly be

        distinguisill.    Sometimes in tely

        lost and recovered sigting motionless under my window.

        h a

        squeak and a bounce.    Near at ed my pity.    One

        evening o by my door t first trembling

        uno move; a poor hing, lean and bony,

        tail and slender pa

        looked as if Nature no longer taihe breed of nobler bloods,

        but stood on    toes.    Its large eyes appeared young and

        un dropsical.    I took a step, and lo, a scud

        ic spring over t, straigs body

        and its limbs into graceful lengt t between

        me and itself -- ting its vigor and the

        dignity of Nature.    Not    reason s slenderness.    Such

        ts nature.    (Lepus, levipes, lig, some think.)

        is a try    rabbits and partridges?    they are

        among t simple and indigenous animal products; a and

        venerable families knoo antiquity as to modern times; of the

        very ance of Nature,    allied to leaves and to

        to one anot is eit is

        legged.    It is ure when a

        rabbit or a partridge bursts aural one, as muco be

        expected as rustling leaves.    tridge and t are still

        sure to true natives of tever revolutions

        occur.    If t is cut off, ts and bushes which

        spring up afford t, and they beore numerous

        t must be a poor try i does not support

        a eem h, and around every s may

        be seen tridge or rabbit    wiggy fences and

        ends.
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