doo

        t to o build my

        o cut doall, arroill in

        timber.    It is difficult to begin

        borro per is t generous course to permit

        your felloo erest in your enterprise.    the owner

        of t, said t it he

        apple of    I retur s.    It

        h pine woods,

        t on the pond, and a small open field in

        the i

        t yet dissolved, there were some open spaces,

        and it urated er.    there were

        some slig I here;

        but for t part o the railroad, on my way

        s yelloche hazy

        atmosphe

        lark and peo enother year

        spring days, in wer of

        mans distent

        orpid began to stretcself.    One day, when my axe had

        e off and I    a green    h

        a stone, and o soak in a pond-o

        sriped snake run into ter, and he lay

        on ttom, apparently    invenience, as long as I stayed

        ter of an

        yet fairly e out of torpid state.    It appeared to me t for

        a like reason men remain in t loive

        dition; but if the spring of

        springs arousing ty rise to a higher and

        more ety

        ms in my pations of till numb and

        inflexible, ing for to t of April

        it rained aed t of the day,

        over the

        pond and cag as if lost, or like t of the fog.

        So I    on for some days cutting and imber, and also

        studs and rafters, all    having many

        unicable or scs, singing to myself, --

        Men say things;

        But lo! taken wings --

        ts and sces,

        And a thousand appliances;

        t blows

        Is all t any body knows.

        I imbers six inc of tuds on

        ters and floor timbers on one side,

        leaving t of t t as straight

        and muger tick was carefully

        mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I ools by

        time.    My days in t very long ones; yet I

        usually carried my dinner of bread and butter, ahe

        ne noon, sitting amid the green

        pine boug off, and to my bread ed some

        of t of

        pitche

        piree, t doter

        acquainted .    Sometimes a rambler in ttracted

        by tted pleasantly over the chips

        which I had made.

        By te in my

        rat of it, my he

        raising.    I    ty of James Collins, an

        Irischburg Railroad, for boards.    James

        Collins sy was sidered an unonly fine one.    hen I

        called to see it    at    tside, at

        first unobserved from

        tage roof, and not much

        else to be seen, t being raised five feet all around as if it

        part, though a good

        deal tle by there was none,

        but a perennial passage for the door board.    Mrs. C.

        came to to vie from the hens

        were driven in by my approac was dark, and    floor

        for t part, dank, clammy, and aguish, only here a board and

        t bear removal.    Sed a lamp to

        s the

        board floor extended u to step into the

        cellar, a sort of dust    deep.    In hey

        ;good boards overhead, good boards all around, and a good

        ; -- of two assed

        out t ely.    tove, a bed, and a place to sit,

        an infant in t was born, a silk parasol,

        gilt-framed looking-glass, and a patent neo an

        oak sapling, all told.    the bargain was soon cluded, for James

        urned.    I to pay four dollars and

        ty-five ts tonigo vacate at five tomorrow m,

        selling to nobody else meanake possession at six.    It

        icipate certain

        indistinct but    and

        fuel.    t six I passed

        heir all --

        bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass,    t; sook

        to t, and, as I learned afterward,

        trod in a trap set for    last.

        I took dohe nails,

        and removed it to tloads, spreading the

        boards on to bleache sun.

        One early te or the woodland

        patreacrick t neighbor

        Seeley, an Iriservals of ting, transferred

        till tolerable, straigaples, and

        spikes to , and tood he

        time of day, and look fress,

        at tation; th of work, as he said.    he

        o represent spe, and his seemingly

        insignifit event one roy.

        I dug my cellar in to th,

        whrough sumach

        and blackberry roots, and t stain of vegetation, six feet

        square by seveo a fine sand oes    freeze

        in any er.    t s stoned; but

        till keeps its place.

        It    ticular pleasure in this

        breaking of ground, for in almost all latitudes men dig into the

        eartemperature.    U splendid house in

        ty is still to be found tore their

        roots as of old, and long after tructure has disappeared

        posterity remark its dent in till but a

        sort of porc trance of a burrow.

        At lengthe help of some of my

        acquaintances, rato improve so good an occasion for

        neigy, I set up the frame of my

        er of his raisers

        tined, I trust, to assist at the raising of

        loftier structures one day.    I began to occupy my h

        of July, as soon as it he boards were

        carefully feat it ly

        impervious to rain, but before b I laid tion of a

        e end, bringing tloads of stones up the hill

        from t ter my hoeing in

        th, doing my

        cooking in t of doors on the

        m: s more

        ve and agreeable t stormed before

        my bread

        uo c

        little, but t scraps of paper whe ground, my

        ableclotertai, in fact

        anshe Iliad.

        It o build still more deliberately

        tance, ion a door, a

        , ure of man, and perce

        never raising any superstructure until ter reason for

        it temporal ies even.    the same

        fitness in a mans building    there is in a birds

        building its o.     if men structed their

        dhemselves and

        families simply and ly enougic faculty would be

        universally developed, as birds universally sing whey are so

        engaged?    But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, wheir

        eggs is w, and craveller

        tering and unmusiotes.    Shall we forever resign

        tru to ter?     does

        arcecture amount to in the mass of men?    I

        never in all my walks came across a man engaged in so simple and

        natural an occupation as building o the

        unity.    It is not tailor alone w of a

        man; it is as mud the farmer.

        o end? and    does it

        finally serve?    No doubt anot it is

        not t o the exclusion of my

        thinking for myself.

        true, tects so called in try, and I have

        least possessed he idea of making

        arcectural ors ruty, and hence

        a beauty, as if it ion to him.    All very well perhaps

        from    of vie only a little better the on

        dilettantism.    A seal reformer in arcecture,

        t at tion.    It    a core

        of truts, t every sugarplum, in fact, might

        -- t almonds

        are most    ant,

        t build truly , ahe

        ors take care of t reasonable man ever

        supposed t ors he skin

        merely -- t tortoise got ted she shell-fish

        its motints, by sucract as tants of

        Broadrinity C a man o do he

        style of arcecture of ortoise    of its

        so try to paint the

        precise color of ue on andard.    t

        out.    urn pale o me

        to leaimidly o the

        rude octs ter t of

        arcectural beauty I now see, I know has gradually grown from

        of ties and cer of the

        indweller, w of some unscious

        trut ever a t for the

        appearand ional beauty of tined

        to be produced y of

        life.    t iing dry, as the

        painter kno uending, s and

        cottages of t is tants

        y in their surfaces

        merely, eresting will

        be tizens suburban box, when his life shall be as simple and

        as agreeable to tion, and ttle straining

        after effe tyle of    proportion of

        arcectural ors are literally ember gale

        rip t injury to the

        substantials.    t arcecture who have no olives

        nor    if an equal ado    the

        ors of style in literature, as of our bibles

        spent as mucime about tects of our

        ctres and ts and

        t s a man, forsooth, how a few

        sticks are slanted over    colors are daubed

        upon     sense,

        ed t; but t ed out of

        tenant, it is of a piece rug he

        arcecture of t;carpenter" is but another name for

        "coffin-maker."    One man says, in o

        life, take up a    your feet, and paint your

        color.    Is    and narrow house?

        toss up a copper for it as well.     an abundance of leisure be

        must ake up a ?    Better paint your

        it turn pale or blush for you.    An

        enterprise to improve tyle of cottage arcecture!    hen you

        my ors ready, I hem.

        Before er I built a che sides of my

        o rain,    and

        sappy s slice of the log, whose edges I was

        obliged th a plane.

        I igered e wide

        by fifteen long, and eig posts,    and a closet, a

        large rap doors, one door at the end, and

        a brick fireplace opposite.    t cost of my he

        usual price for sucerials as I used, but not ting the work,

        all of whe

        details because very feo tell exactly heir houses

        cost, and feill, if any, te cost of the various

        materials whem:--

        Boards .......................... $ 8.03+, mostly sy boards.

        Refuse shingles for roof sides ...    4.00

        Laths ............................    1.25

        two sed-hand windows

        h glass ....................    2.43

        Ohousand old brick ...........    4.00

        t was high.

        han I needed.

        Maree iron .................    0.15

        Nails ............................    3.90

        hinges and screws ................    0.14

        Latch ............................    0.10

        Chalk ............................    0.01

        transportation ...................    1.40    I carried a good part

        ------- on my back.

        In all ...................... $28.12+

        terials, excepting timber, stones, and

        sand, .    I have also a small

        er

        building the house.

        I io build me a he main

        street in cord in grandeur and luxury, as soon as it pleases me

        as muc me no more t one.

        I t tudent wer

        obtain one for a lifetime at an expe greater t

        more than is

        being, my excuse is t I brag for y rathan for

        myself; and my sings and insistencies do not affect the

        trutatement.    Notanding mud hypocrisy --

        c difficult to separate from my    for

        ch

        myself in t, it is suco bothe moral and

        pem; and I am resolved t I    ty

        bee ttorney.    I o speak a good word

        for trut Cambridge College t of a students

        room, y dollars

        ea age of building

        ty-t suffers

        the invenienany and noisy neighbors, and perhaps a

        residen tory.    I ot but t if we had

        more true s, not only less education would be

        needed, because, forsooth, more would already have been acquired,

        but tting an education

        measure vanisudent requires at

        Cambridge or elseimes as great

        a sacrifice of life as t on both

        sides.    t money is demanded are never

        tudent most s.    tuition, for instance, is

        an important item in term bill, whe far more valuable

        education ing    cultivated of

        emporaries no che mode of founding a

        college is, only, to get up a subscription of dollars as,

        and to

        its extreme -- a principle h

        circumspe -- to call in a tractor w

        of speculation, and ives actually

        to lay tions, s t are to be are said

        to be fitting t; and for ts successive

        geions o pay.    I t it ter this,

        for tudents, or to be beed by it, even to

        lay tion tudent wed

        leisure airement by systematically shirking any labor

        necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure,

        defrauding he experience which alone    make leisure

        fruitful.    "But," says one, "you do not mean t tudents

        so ead of t;    I do

        not mealy, but I mean somet think a

        good deal like t; I mean t t play life, or study

        it merely, s t this expensive game,

        but early live it from beginning to end.    hs

        better learn to live t orying t of

        living?    Metheir minds as much as

        matics.    If I    ts and

        sces, for instance, I    pursue the on course, which

        is merely to send o the neighborhood of some professor, where

        anytised but t of life; -- to

        survey telescope or a microscope, and never h

        ural eye; to study cry, and not learn how his bread is

        made, or mec learn    is earo discover new

        satellites to une, and not detect tes in o

        e o be devoured by the

        mo sing ters

        in a drop of vinegar.     at the end

        of a monthe ore

        wed, reading as much as would be necessary

        for tteures oallurgy

        at titute in the meanwhile, and had received a Rodgers

        penknife from    likely to cut his

        fingers?...    to my astonis I was informed on leaving college

        t I udied navigation! -- urn down

        t it.    Even tudent

        studies and is taugical ey, w ey of

        living w even sincerely

        professed in our colleges.    t while he is

        reading Adam Smit

        irretrievably.

        As ;modern improvements";

        t t alive

        advaing pound io t

        for ments in them.

        Our iions are    to be pretty toys,    our

        attention from serious t improved means to an

        unimproved end, an end    too easy to arrive

        at; as railroads lead to Boston or Ne e

        to struct a magic telegrapo texas; but Maine and

        texas, it may be, ant to unicate.    Either is

        in suc as t to be introduced to

        a distinguis wed, and one end

        of rumpet    into o say.    As if

        t o talk fast and not to talk sensibly.    e are

        eager to tunnel ulantid bring the Old orld some

        o t pere will leak

        to t the

        Princess Adelaide er all, the man whose

        rots a mile in a minute does not carry t important

        messages;    an eva, nor does ing

        locusts and wild    if Flying Childers ever carried a

        peck of    to mill.

        One says to me, "I    you do not lay up money; you love

        to travel; you migake to Fitcoday and see

        try."    But I am .    I    the

        sest traveller is    goes afoot.    I say to my friend,

        Suppose ry .    tance is ty

        miles; ty ts.    t is almost a days wages.    I

        remember s a day for laborers on this very

        road.    ell, I start no, a; I have

        travelled at t rate by togethe

        meanwime

        tet a

        job in season.    Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be w

        er part of the railroad reached

        round t I should keep ahead of you; and as for

        seeing try aing experience of t kind, I should

        o cut your acquaintaogether.

        Sud

        o t is as broad as it is

        long.    to make a railroad round to all mankind

        is equivalent to grading t.    Men have

        an indistinotion t if tivity of joint

        stocks and spades long enoug length ride somewhere, in

        o no time, and for not to the

        depot, and tor ss "All aboard!" whe smoke is

        blo    a few

        are riding, but t are run over -- and it will be called, and

        ;A melanc."    No doubt t last

        hey survive so long,

        but t ticity and desire to

        travel by t time.    t part of ones life

        earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the

        least valuable part of it reminds me of t to

        India to make a fortune first, in order t    return to

        England and live t.

        at once.    "!" exclaim a million Irisarting up from all

        ties in t;is not t

        a good t;    Yes, I ansively good, t is, you

        mig I wis

        you could    your time better t.

        Before I finiso earn ten or twelve

        dollars by some    and agreeable meto meet my

        unusual expenses, I planted about two acres and a    and

        sandy soil near it c also a small part h

        potatoes, , peas, and turnips.    t tains eleven

        acres, mostly groo pines and he

        preg season f ts an acre.    One

        farmer said t it ;good for not to raise cheeping

        squirrels on."    I put no manure    being the

        o merely a squatter, and not expeg to cultivate so much

        again, and I did not quite    all once.    I got out several cords

        of stumps in plowing, wime,

        a small circles of virgin mould, easily distinguishable

        ter luxuriance of there.

        t part unmercable wood behind my house,

        and the remainder of my

        fuel.    I o eam and a man for the plowing,

        tgoes for t season

        s, seed, c., $14.72+.    the seed    was

        gives anyto speak of, unless you plant

        more t twelve buseen

        busatoes, beside some peas and s .    the yellow

        and turnips oo late to e to anything.    My whole ine

        from the farm was

        $ 23.44

        Dedug tgoes ............    14.72+

        -------

        t .................. $    8.71+

        beside produed and on    time timate was

        made of t on han

        balang a little grass hings

        sidered, t is, sidering tance of a mans soul and

        of today, notanding t time occupied by my experiment,

        nay, partly even because of its tra cer, I believe t

        t ter t year.

        t year I did better still, for I spaded up all the land

        he

        experience of bot being in t awed by many

        celebrated    if

        one    only the crop which he raised, and

        raise no more te, and not exc for an insuffit

        quantity of more luxurious and expeo

        cultivate only a fe it would be co

        spade up t to use oxen to plo, and to select a fresh

        spot from time to time to mahe old, and he could do all

        odd hours

        in t be tied to an ox, or horse, or

        co present.    I desire to speak impartially on this

        point, and as o ied in the

        present eical and social arras.    I

        t anco a house or

        farm, but could follo of my genius, which is a very

        crooked one, every moment.    Beside beier off they

        already, if my house had been burned or my crops had failed, I

        should have been nearly as well off as before.

        I am    to t me so muche keepers of herds

        as he freer.

        Men and oxen exc if we sider necessary work only,

        to ly tage, their farm is

        so muc of the exge work

        in    is no boys play.    Certainly no

        nation t lived simply in all respects, t is, no nation of

        p so great a blunder as to use the labor of

        animals.    true, t likely soon to be a

        nation of pain it is desirable t there

        should be.    however, I should never have broken a horse or bull and

        taken o board for any work    do for me, for fear I

        sy seems

        to be tain t w is one mans

        gain is not anot table-boy has equal cause

        er to be satisfied?    Gra some public works

        ructed    t man share

        t follo he

        could not    more

        case?    o do, not merely unnecessary or artistic, but

        luxurious and idle a is iable

        t a feher

        ro.    Man t only works

        for t, for a symbol of this, he works for

        t antial houses of

        brick or stoy of till measured by

        to wown is

        said to    houses for oxen, cows, and horses

        s, and it is not bes public buildings; but

        this

        ty.    It s be by tecture, but w even by

        tract t, t nations so

        orate t-Geeta

        t!    toemples are the luxury

        of princes.    A simple and indepe mind does not toil at the

        bidding of any prince.    Genius is not a retaio any emperor, nor

        is its material silver, old, or marble, except to a trifling

        extent.    to w end, pray, is so mue hammered?    In Arcadia,

        ions are

        possessed ion to perpetuate the memory of

        t of o if

        equal pains aken to smootheir manners?    One

        piece of good sense    as high

        as tter to see stones in place.    the grandeur of

        tone wall

        t bounds an    mans field ted t

        rue end of life.    the religion and

        civilization whenish build splendid

        temples; but y does not.    Most of the

        stone a nation os tomb only.    It buries itself

        alive.    As for to    in them

        so muc t so many men could be found degraded enough

        to spend trug a tomb for some ambitious booby,

        w would o he

        Nile, and to t possibly i

        some excuse for t I ime for it.    As for the

        religion and love of art of t is muche same all

        tian temple or the

        Uates Bank.    It costs more t es to.    the mainspring

        is vanity, assisted by tter.    Mr.

        Bal, a promising young arcect, designs it on the back of his

        Vitruvius,    out to

        Dobson & Sons, stoers.    y turies begin to

        look do, mankind begin to look up at it.    As for yh

        tos, town who

        uook to dig to C so far t, as he

        said, s ales rattle; but I t

        I s go out of my o admire the hole which he made.    Many

        are ed about ts of t and t -- to

        kno, I so know who in

        t build trifling.    But

        to proceed atistics.

        By surveying, carpentry, and day-labor of various other kinds in

        trades as fingers,

        I    months, namely,

        from July 4to Marc, time es were made,

        t ting potatoes, a

        little green , and some peas, which I had raised, nor

        sidering t    date -- was

        Rice .................... $ 1.73 1/2

        Molasses .................    1.73    of the

        saccharine.

        Rye meal .................    1.04 3/4

        Indian meal ..............    0.99 3/4     rye.

        Pork .....................    0.22

        All experiments which failed:

        Flour ....................    0.88    Costs more than Indian meal,

        botrouble.

        Sugar ....................    0.80

        Lard .....................    0.65

        Apples ...................    0.25

        Dried apple ..............    0.22

        S potatoes ...........    0.10

        One pumpkin ..............    0.06

        One ermelon ...........    0.02

        Salt .....................    0.03

        Yes, I did eat $8.74, all told; but I s thus unblushingly

        publis, if I did not kno most of my readers were

        equally guilty    their deeds would look no

        better in print.    t year I sometimes caught a mess of fish

        for my dinner, and once I    so far as to slaughter a woodchuck

        ion, as a

        tartar s sake;

        but t afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notanding a

        musky flavor, I sa t use    make t a good

        practice,    migo have your woodchucks ready

        dressed by tcher.

        Clotal expenses es,

        ttle    be inferred from tem, amouo

        $ 8.40-3/4

        Oil and some ensils ........    2.00

        So t all tgoes, excepting for washing and

        mending,     of the house, and

        t yet been received -- and these are all and more

        t in t

        of the world -- were

        house ................................. $ 28.12+

        Farm one year ........................... 14.72+

        Food eighs .......................    8.74

        Clotc., eighs ............    8.40-3/4

        Oil, etc., eighs .................    2.00

        -----------

        In all ............................ $ 61.99-3/4

        I address myself noo to

        get.    And to meet this I have for farm produce sold

        $ 23.44

        Earned by day-labor ....................    13.34

        -------

        In all ............................ $ 36.78,

        ed from tgoes leaves a balance of

        $25.21 3/4 on th

        ed, and to be incurred -- and

        on thus

        secured, a fortable o occupy

        it.

        tatistics, al and tructive

        tain pleteness, ain

        value also.    Not rendered some

        at.    It appears from timate, t my food alone

        e in money about ty-seves a    was, for

        nearly ter t yeast,

        potatoes, rice, a very little salt pork, molasses, and salt; and my

        drink, er.    It    t I should live on rice, mainly, who

        love so o meet tions of

        some ie cavillers, I may as ate, t if I dined out

        occasionally, as I al shall have

        opportuo do again, it ly to triment of my

        domestic arras.    But t, being, as I ated,

        a stant element, does not in t affect a parative

        statement like this.

        I learned from my t it

        incredibly little trouble to obtain ones necessary food, even in

        titude; t a man may use as simple a diet as the animals,

        a retaiisfactory

        dinner, satisfactory on several ats, simply off a dish of

        purslane (Portulaca oleracea) whered in my field,

        boiled and salted.    I give tin on at of the savoriness of

        trivial name.    And pray w more    a reasonable man desire,

        in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, t number of

        ears of green s    boiled, ion of salt?    Even

        ttle variety he demands of

        appetite, and not of    men o suc

        tly starve, not for    of necessaries, but for    of

        luxuries; and I know a good woman w    his

        life because ook to drinking er only.

        t I am treating t rather

        from an eic tetic point of view, and

        veo put my abstemiouso test unless he has a

        ocked larder.

        Bread I at first made of pure Indian meal and salt, genuine

        of doors on a shingle or

        tick of timber sa

        to get smoked and to ried flour

        also; but    last found a mixture of rye and Indian meal most

        ve and agreeable.    In cold    tle

        amusement to bake several small loaves of this in succession,

        tending and turning tian g

        eggs.    t whey had

        to my senses a fragrance like t of ots, which I

        kept in as long as possible by hs.    I made a

        study of t and indispensable art of bread-making,

        sulting sucies as offered, going back to tive

        days and first iion of the

        s as men first reache mildness and

        refi of t, and travelling gradually doudies

        t actal s of t is supposed,

        taugations

        ter, till I came to "good, s, aff

        of life.    Leaven, wus

        issue, which is religiously preserved like

        tal fire -- some precious bottleful, I suppose, first brought

        over in ts

        influence is still rising, swelling, spreading, in cerealian billows

        over thfully procured from

        till at lengt the rules, and

        scalded my yeast; by    even this was

        not indispensable -- for my discoveries    by tic

        but analytic process -- and I ted it sihough

        most ly assured me t safe and wholesome bread

        yeast mig be, and elderly people prophesied a speedy

        decay of tal forces.    Yet I find it not to be an essential

        ingredient, and after going    it for a year am still in the

        land of to escape trivialness of

        carrying a bottleful in my pocket, wimes pop and

        discs tents to my disfiture.    It is simpler and more

        respectable to omit it.    Man is an animal wher

        adapt o all climates and circumstances.    her did I

        put any sal-soda, or oto my bread.    It would

        seem t I made it acc to the recipe which Marcus Porcius

        Cato gave about turies before C.    "Panem depsticium sic

        faanus mortariumque bene lavato.    Farinam in mortarium

        indito, aquae paulatim addito, subigitoque pulchre.    Ubi bene

        subegeris, defingito, coquitoque sub testu."    ake to mean,

        -- "Make kneaded bread troug

        ter gradually, and knead it

        t , and bake it

        under a cover," t is, in a bakile.    Not a

        leaven.    But I did not alaff of life.    At oime,

        oo tiness of my purse, I sa for more than a

        month.

        Every New Englander miguffs

        in t depend on distant and

        fluctuating markets for t so far are y and

        independe, in cord, fres meal is rarely sold

        in till coarser form are hardly

        used by any.    For t part to tle and

        least no more er cost, at tore.    I saw

        t I could easily raise my buswo of rye and Indian ,

        for t land, and tter does

        not require t, and grind them in a hand-mill, and so do

        rid pork; and if I must rated s, I

        found by experiment t I could make a very good molasses either of

        pumpkins or beets, and I kne I needed only to set out a few

        maples to obtain it more easily still, and whese were growing

        I could use various substitutes beside those which I have named.

        "For," as thers sang,--

        "o sen our lips

        Of pumpkins and parsnips and -tree c;

        Finally, as for salt, t grossest of groceries, to obtain this

        mig occasion for a visit to the seashore, or, if I did

        it altogeter.    I do

        not learn t troubled to go after it.

        trade and barter, so far as my food was

        ed, and er already, it o get

        clotaloons which I now wear were woven in a

        farmers family -- tue still in

        man; for I to tive as great

        and memorable as t from to the farmer; -- and in a new

        try, fuel is an encumbrance.    As for a at, if I

        permitted still to squat, I mig the same

        price for ed

        dollars and eigs.    But as it    I

        enting on it.

        tain class of unbelievers wimes ask me

        sus as, if I t I    live oable food

        alone; and to strike at t of tter at once -- for the

        root is faitomed to answer suc I    live on

        board nails.    If t uand t, t uand

        muc I o say.    For my part, I am glad to bear of

        experiments of tried; as t a young man tried for

        a fo live oh

        for all mortar.    tribe tried the same and succeeded.

        terested in ts, though a few old

        ed for thirds in

        mills, may be alarmed.

        My furniture, part of

        me not rendered an at -- sisted of a

        bed, a table, a desk, three inches in

        diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a

        frying-pan, a dipper, a hree

        plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a

        japanned lamp.    None is so poor t    on a pumpkin.    t

        is slessness.    ty of suc

        in ts to be aking ture!

        t and I    stand    ture

        a p be aso see

        ure packed in a cart and going up try exposed to the

        lig of empty

        boxes?    t is Spauldings furniture.    I could ell from

        iing suc beloo a so-called rich man

        or a poor oy-stri.    Indeed,

        the poorer you are.    Each load

        looks as if it taients of a dozen sies; and if

        one sy is poor, times as poor.    Pray, for w

        do    to get rid of our furniture, our exuvioe: at

        last to go from to another newly furnished, and leave

        to be burned?    It is traps were

        buckled to a ma, and    move over the rough

        try    dragging them -- dragging

        rap.     left ail in trap.    the

        muskrat will gnaw o be free.    No wonder man has

        lost icity.    en    a dead set!    "Sir, if I may

        be so bold, ?"    If you are a seer,

        he owns, ay, and much

        t ends to disown, beo

        furniture and all trumpery w burn, and

        o be o it and making w headway he .

        I t t a dead set hrough a

        knot-e

        follo feel passi,

        pact-looking man, seemingly free, all girded and ready, speak of

        ;furniture," as .    "But w shall I

        do ure?" -- My gay butterfly is entangled in a

        spiders    to have

        any, if you inquire more narrowly you will find ored in

        somebodys barn.    I look upon England today as an old gentleman who

        is travelling    deal of baggage, trumpery which has

        accumulated from long    to

        burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox, and buhrow away

        t t least.    It he powers of a well man

        noo take up ainly advise

        a sie to lay down    an

        immigrant t under a bundle wained his all --

        looking like an enormous he nape of his

        neck -- I ied    because t was    because

        to carry.    If I    t my trap, I will

        take care t it be a lig nip me in a vital part.

        But perever to put ones pao it.

        I    it costs me nothing for

        curtains, for I o s out but the sun and moon, and

        I am    t sour milk

        nor tai of mine, nor ure or fade

        my carpet; and if imes too    still

        better ey to retreat beain wure has

        provided, to add a siem to tails of housekeeping.

        A lady once offered me a mat, but as I o spare hin

        time to spare    to s, I

        deed it, preferring to    on the sod before my door.

        It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

        Not long since I    at tion of a deas

        effects, for    been iual:--

        "t men do lives after t;

        As usual, a great proportion rumpery wo

        accumulate in    was a dried

        tapeer lying ury in    and

        ot    burned; instead of a

        bonfire, or purifyiru of tion, or

        increasing of ted to viehem,

        bougransported to ts and

        dust o lie till tates are settled, whey

        art again.    .

        toms of some savage nations might, perce, be

        profitably imitated by us, for t least go the

        semblance of casting the idea of

        ty or not.    ould it not be

        o celebrate suc;busk," or "feast of first

        fruits," as Bartram describes to om of the

        Mucclasse Indians?    "oes t; says he,

        "s,

        pans, and otensils and furniture, t all

        t clothings, sweep and

        se toh,

        whey

        cast togeto one on    er

        aken medie, and fasted for the fire in

        toinguis tain from the

        gratification of every appetite and passion wever.    A general

        amy is proclaimed; all malefaay return to to;

        "On t, by rubbing dry wood

        togethe public square, from whence every

        ation in to;

        t on ts, and dand sing

        for t;and ts and

        rejoice owns who have in like

        manner purified and prepared t;

        tised a similar purification at the end of

        every fifty-t it ime for the world

        to e to an end.

        I ruer sacrament, t is, as the

        diary defi, "outward and visible sign of an inward and

        spiritual grace," t t they were

        inally inspired directly from o do they

        ion.

        For more tained myself the

        labor of my , by    six weeks in a

        year, I could meet all the whole of my

        ers, as    of my summers, I had free and clear for

        study.    I ried sc my

        expenses ion, or rat of proportion, to my

        ine, for I o dress and train, not to say think and

        believe, accly, and I lost my time into the bargain.    As I did

        not teac simply for a

        liveliried trade but I found t

        it ake ten years to get under , and t then I

        so tually afraid

        t I mig time be doing w is called a good business.

        to see w I could do for a

        living, some sad experien ing to the wishes of friends

        being freso tax my iy, I t often and

        seriously of pig    surely I could do, and its

        small profits migest skill o

        but little -- so little capital it required, so little

        distra from my ed moods, I foolis.    hile my

        acquaintances    unatingly into trade or the professions, I

        plated tion as most like the hills

        all summer to pick ter

        carelessly dispose of to keep tus.    I

        also dreamed t I mighe wild herbs, or carry evergreens

        to suco be reminded of to the

        city, by    loads.    But I    trade curses

        everyt rade in messages from heaven,

        trade attaco the business.

        As I preferred some to others, and especially valued my

        freedom, as I could fare    succeed    wish

        to spend my time in earning rics or oture, or

        delicate cookery, or a yle just

        yet.    If to erruption to acquire

        to use them when acquired, I

        relinquiso t.    Some are "industrious," and appear

        to love labor for its o

        of    noto say.    those

        o do hey now enjoy,

        I migo hey

        pay for t their free papers.    For myself I found

        t tion of a day-laborer    indepe of

        any, especially as it required only ty or forty days in a year

        to support ohe

        sun, and o devote o ,

        indepe of    es from

        monto monte from one end of to the

        other.

        In s, I am vinced, bot to

        maintain ones self on t a    a pastime,

        if s of the simpler

        nations are still ts of tificial.    It is not

        necessary t a man s of his

        brohan I do.

        One young man of my acquaintance, wed some acres,

        told me t    he

        means.    I     my mode of living on any

        at; for, beside t before    I may have

        found out anot there may be as many

        different persons in t I would have each

        one be very careful to find out and pursue    his

        fatead.    th may

        build or plant or sail, only let    be

        is by a matical

        point only t ive slave

        keeps tar in    t is suffit guidance for

        all our life.    e may not arrive at our port hin a calculable

        period, but rue course.

        Undoubtedly, in t is true for one is truer still

        for a t proportionally more

        expehan a small one, sine roof may cover, one cellar

        underlie, and one e several apartments.    But for my

        part, I preferred tary d will only

        be co build to vinother of

        tage of the

        on partition, to be muc be a t

        ot keep his side in

        repair.    tion which is only possible is

        exceedingly partial and superficial; and tle true

        co-operation t , being a harmony

        inaudible to men.    If a man e h equal

        fait faitio live like

        t of tever pany o.    to

        co-operate in t as    sense, means to get

        our living toget proposed lately t two young men

        sravel toget money,

        earning , before t and behe plow,

        t.    It o

        see t t long be panions or co-operate, sine

        operate at all.    t at t iing

        crisis in tures.    Above all, as I he man

        today; but ravels

        till t ot may be a long time before they

        get off.

        But all townsmen

        say.    I fess t I o indulged very little in

        perprises.    I o a sense

        of duty, and among othere

        are ts to persuade me to uake

        t of some poor family in town; and if I o

        do -- for t for t try my

        some sucime as t.     to

        indulge myself in t, and lay their heaven under an

        obligation by maintainiain poor persons in all respects as

        fortably as I maintain myself, and ured so far as

        to make tatingly

        preferred to remain poor.    oed

        in so many o trust t o

        least may be spared to ots.    You must

        y as hing else.    As for

        Doing-good, t is one of the professions which are full.

        Moreover, I ried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am

        satisfied t it does not agree itution.    Probably I

        s sciously and deliberately forsake my particular

        calling to do ty demands of me, to save the

        universe from anniion; and I believe t a like but infinitely

        greater steadfastness else.    But I

        staween any man and o him who does

        t and soul and life,

        I    doing evil, as it

        is most likely they will.

        I am far from supposing t my case is a peculiar one; no doubt

        many of my readers    doing something

        -- I    e my neig good -- I

        do not ate to say t I sal felloo hire;

        but    is, it is for my employer to find out.     good I

        do, in t    be aside from my main

        pat part wended.    Men say,

        practically, Begin w aiming

        mainly to bee of mo

        about doing good.    If I o preac all in train, I

        s about being good.    As if top

        ar

        of tude, and go about like a Robin Goodfellow,

        peeping in at every cottage ics, and tainting

        meats, and making darkness visible, instead of steadily increasing

        and benefice till

        no mortal    look he meanwhile

        too, going about t, doing it good, or

        ratruer p

        ting good.    on, wiso prove h

        by    but one day, and drove out

        of ten track, he lower

        streets of h, and dried

        up every spring, and made t desert of Saill at length

        Jupiter o t, and the

        sun, t    shine for a year.

        t which arises from goodness

        tainted.    It is    is divine, carrion.    If I knew for a

        certainty t a man o my he scious

        design of doing me good, I s dry

        and parcs called the simoom, which

        fills t till you are

        suffocated, for fear t I s some of o me

        -- some of its virus mingled his case I

        ural    a good man

        to me because arving, or warm me if

        I s of a ditch if I should ever

        fall into one.    I    find you a Ne will do as

        muc love for ones fello

        sense.     an exceedingly kind and hy man in

        , paratively speaking, w are a

        o us, if t help us in our

        best estate, o be helped?    I never heard of

        a ping in o do any

        good to me, or the like of me.

        ts e balked by those Indians who, being burned

        at take, suggested ure to tormentors.

        Being superior to p sometimes c they

        o any solation whe missionaries could offer;

        and to do as you h less

        persuasiveness on t, did not

        care er a new

        fashey did.

        Be sure t you give t

        be your example whem far behind.    If you give money,

        spend yourself , and do not merely abandon it to them.    e

        make istakes sometimes.    Often t so cold

        and y and ragged and gross.    It is partly his

        taste, and not merely une.    If you give him money, he

        to pity the clumsy

        Iris i the pond, in such mean and ragged

        clotidy and somew more

        fass, till, oter cold day, one who had slipped

        into ter came to my o warm rip off

        ts and togs ere    doo

        ty and ragged enoug is true, and

        t o refuse tra garments which I offered

        ra ones.    thing he

        needed.    to pity myself, and I sa it would be a

        greater cy to bestohan a whole

        slop-s the branches of

        evil to o, and it may be t he who

        besto amount of time and money on the needy is doing

        t by o produce t misery wrives

        in vain to relieve.    It is ting the

        proceeds of every tento buy a Sundays liberty for the

        rest.    Some so them in

        tc be kinder if they employed

        t of spending a tent of your ine

        in cy; maybe you senth

        it.    Society recovers only a tent of ty then.    Is

        to ty of    is found,

        or to tice?

        P tue wly

        appreciated by mankind.    Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our

        selfises it.    A robust poor man, one sunny day

        oo me, because, as he

        said, o the kind uncles and

        aunts of teemed ts true spiritual fathers

        and moturer on England, a man of

        learning and intelligence, after eing ific,

        literary, and political hies, Shakespeare, Ba, well,

        Milton, Ne of ian heroes,

        o a

        place far above all t, as test of t.    they

        he falsehood

        and t of t    Englands best men and women;

        only, per ps.

        I    subtrayt is due to

        p merely demand justice for all wheir lives

        and o mankind.    I do not value chiefly a mans

        uprig were, em and

        leaves.    ts of wea

        for t a    employed by

        quacks.    I    t of a man; t some fragrance

        be ed over from o me, and some ripeness flavor our

        intercourse.     not be a partial and transitory act,

        but a stant superfluity, ws hing and of which he

        is unscious.    ty t itude of sins.

        t too often surrounds mankind he remembrance

        of off griefs as an atmosp sympathy.

        e s our ce, and not our despair, our h and

        ease, and not our disease, and take care t t spread

        by tagion.    From he voice of

        itudes reside to whom we would

        send lig intemperate and brutal man whom we would

        redeem?    If anyt    perform his

        funs, if    is the

        seat of sympats about ref -- the world.

        Being a mi    is a true

        discovery, and o make it -- t the world has been

        eating green apples; to , tself is a

        great green apple,    the

        c is ripe; and straightway his

        drastic p tagonian, and

        embraces thus, by a

        fey, the meanwhile

        using , he cures himself of his

        dyspepsia, t bluss

        c o be ripe, and life loses its

        crudity and is once more s and wo live.    I never

        dreamed of any enormity greater tted.    I never

        knew, and never shan myself.

        I believe t    hy

        ress, but, t son of

        God, is e ail.    Let ted, let the spring e

        to he m rise over his couch, and he will forsake his

        generous panions    apology.    My excuse for not lecturing

        against tobacco is, t I never c, t is a

        penalty here are

        ture against.    If you

        srayed into any of t let

        your left    y is not h

        knoie your srings.    take your

        time, a about some free labor.

        Our manners ed by unication he

        saints.    Our h a melodious cursing of God and

        enduring    even ts and

        redeemers he hopes of

        man.    there is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible

        satisfa    of life, any memorable praise of God.

        All hdrawn

        it may appear; all disease and failure o make me sad and does

        me evil,    may .

        If, tore mankind by truly Indian, botanic,

        magic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as

        Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows,

        and take up a little life into our pores.    Do not stay to be an

        overseer of t endeavor to bee one of thies of

        the world.

        I read in tan, or Flarden, of Sheik Sadi of

        S "ted

        trees y and umbrageous, they

        call none azad, or free, excepting the cypress, which bears no

        fruit; ery is ts

        appropriate produce, and appointed season, during tinuance of

        w is fresheir absence dry and

        o es is the cypress exposed, being

        alhe azads, ious

        indepes. -- Fix not t on t ory; for

        tigris, io floer

        tinct: if ty, be liberal

        as te tree; but if it affords noto give away, be an

        azad, or free man, like t;

        PLEMENtAL VERSES

        tensions of Poverty

        t presume too mucch,

        to claim a station in t

        Because ttage, or tub,

        Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue

        In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs,

        its and pot- hand,

        tearing the mind,

        Upon ues flourish,

        Degradeture, and beh sense,

        And, Gon-like, turns active men to stone.

        e not require ty

        Of your ated temperance,

        Or t unnatural stupidity

        t knows nor joy nor sorrow; nor your forcd

        Falsely exalted passive fortitude

        Above tive.    t brood,

        t fix ts in mediocrity,

        Bee your servile minds; but we advance

        Sucues only as admit excess,

        Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnifice,

        All-seeing prudence, magnanimity

        t kno ue

        For y    no name,

        But patterns only, such as hercules,

        Aco thd cell;

        And ened sphere,

        Study to kno hies were.

        t. CARE
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