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House-Warming

        In October I    a-graping to the river meadows, and loaded

        myself ers more precious for ty and fragrance

        too, I admired, t gathe

        berries, small s of the meadow grass, pearly

        and red, whe

        smoothe bushel

        and to Boston and

        o be jammed, to satisfy tastes of lovers of

        Nature tgues of bison out of the

        prairie grass, regardless of torn and drooping plant.    the

        barberrys brilliant fruit

        I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling, whe

        proprietor and travellers nuts were ripe

        I laid up er.    It ing at t

        season to roam tnut hey

        noh a bag on my

        sick to open burs

        al for t, amid tling of leaves and the loud

        reproofs of ts

        I sometimes stole, for ted o

        tain sound ones.    Occasionally I climbed and srees.

        tree, w

        overs, he

        most of its

        fruit; t ing in flocks early in the m and pig

        ts out of these

        trees to ted tant woods posed wholly of

        ut.    ts, as far as t, itute

        for bread.    Many otitutes might, perhaps, be found.

        Digging one day for fis (Apios

        tuberosa) on its string, tato of t of

        fabulous fruit,    if I had ever dug and

        eaten in cold, and    dreamed it.    I had

        often since seen its crumpled red velvety blossom supported by the

        stems of ots    kno to be the same.

        Cultivation ermi.    It isaste,

        muc of a frost-bitten potato, and I found it better

        boiled ted.    tuber seemed like a faint promise of

        Nature to rear    some

        future period.    In tted cattle and waving

        grain-fields t, em of an Indian

        tribe, is quite fotten, or knos flo

        let ure reign ender and luxurious

        English grains will probably disappear before a myriad of foes, and

        t seed

        of    to t field of t,

        ; but t

        exterminated ground-nut will pere of

        frosts and self indigenous, and resume its a

        importand dignity as t of ter tribe.    Some Indian

        Ceres or Minerva must or ao; and

        ring of

        nuts may be represented on our .

        Already, by t of September, I hree

        small maples turned scarlet across te

        stems of t t of a promontory,

        ter.    Aale told!    And gradually from

        o er of eacree came out, and it admired

        itself reflected in the

        manager of tituted some neure, distinguished

        by more brilliant or he

        walls.

        to my lodge in October, as to er

        quarters, aled on my he walls

        overimes deterring visitors from entering.    Each m,

        , but I did

        not trouble myself muco get rid of t plimented

        by ter.    they never

        molested me seriously, they

        gradually disappeared, into    know, avoiding

        er and unspeakable cold.

        Like t into er quarters in

        November, I used to resort to t side of alden, which

        ted from ty shore,

        made t is so mucer and

        han by an

        artificial fire.    I till glowing embers

        wed er, .

        o build my cudied masonry.    My bricks,

        being sed-o be ed rowel, so

        t I learned more ties of bricks and

        troar on ty years old, and o be

        still grohose sayings which men

        love to repeat .    Such sayings

        t would

        take many bloroo    an old hem.

        Many of tamia are built of sed-hand bricks

        of a very good quality, obtained from the

        t on till.     may

        be, I ruck by tougeel which bore

        so many violent blo being .    As my bricks had been

        in a c read the name of

        Nebuc its many fireplace bricks as I

        could find, to save e, and I filled tween

        t tones from the pond shore, and

        also made my mortar e sand from the same place.    I

        lingered most about t vital part of the

        ely, t t

        the m, a course of bricks raised a few inches

        above t nig I did not get a

        stiff neck for it t I remember; my stiff neck is of older date.

        I took a poet to board for a f times, which

        caused me to be put to it for room.     his own knife,

        to scour ting to

        the labors of cooking.    I leased

        to see my ed,

        t, if it proceeded slo ed to endure a long

        time.    to some extent an indepe structure,

        standing on to the heavens;

        even after t still stands sometimes, and its

        importand independence are apparent.    tohe end

        of summer.    It was now November.

        to cool t

        took many eady bloo aplis, it is so deep.

        o    evening, before I plastered my house,

        ticularly he numerous

        c I passed some cheerful evenings in

        t cool and airy apartment, surrounded by the rough brown boards

        full of knots, and rafters he bark on high overhead.    My house

        never pleased my eye so mucer it ered, though I was

        obliged to fess t it able.    S every

        apartment in e some

        obscurity over evening

        about ters?    to the fand

        imagination tings or ot expensive

        furniture.    I no began to in my house, I may say, when I

        began to use it for er.    I    a couple

        of old fire-dogs to keep t did me

        good to see t form on the ey which I had

        built, and I poked t and more satisfa

        tertain an

        ec; but it seemed larger for being a single apartment and

        remote from ras of a house were

        trated in one room; it , chamber, parlor, and

        keeping-room; and isfa parent or cer or

        servant, derive from living in a    all.    Cato

        says, ter of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his

        rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat

        caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit," t is,

        "an oil and    it may be pleasant to

        expect imes; it ue, and

        glory."    I atoes, about ts

        of peas tle rice, a

        jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.

        I sometimes dream of a larger and more populous anding

        in a golden age, of enduring materials, and    gingerbread

        of only one room, a vast, rude,

        substantial, primitive    ceiling or plastering, h

        bare rafters and purlins supp a sort of lower heaven over

        ones o keep off rain and snow, whe king and

        queen posts stand out to receive your homage, when you have done

        revereo trate Saturn of an older dynasty on stepping

        over t reacorch

        upon a pole to see the fireplace,

        some in ttles, some at one end

        of t anot on rafters he

        spiders, if t into when you

        side door, and the

        raveller may

        furter as you o rea a

        tempestuous nigaining all tials of a house, and

        notreasures of

        t one vies peg, t a man

        s ocry, parlor, corehouse,

        and garret; whing, as a barrel or a

        ladder, so ve a t boil,

        and pay your respects to t cooks your dinner, and the

        oven t bakes your bread, and ture and utensils

        are ts;    out, nor the

        fire, nor tress, and perimes requested to

        move from off trap-door, he

        cellar, and so learn wh

        you    stamping.    A

        as a birds , and you ot go in at t door and out at

        t seeing some of its inants;

        is to be preseo be

        carefully excluded from seven eig, s up in a particular

        cell, and told to make yourself at ary

        fi.    No does not admit you to h,

        but    to build one for yourself somewhere in his

        alley, and ality is t of keeping you at test

        dista the cooking as if he had a

        design to poison you.    I am a I have been on many a mans

        premises, and mig I am not

        a I    visit in my

        old clothes a king and queen who lived simply in such a house as I

        bag out of a

        modern palace    I so learn, if ever I am

        caught in one.

        It he very language of our parlors would lose

        all its nerve and degee into palaver w

        suess from its symbols, and its metapropes are

        necessarily so far fetcers, as it

        and

        workshe parable of a dinner,

        only.    As if only t near enougo Nature and

        truto borrorope from the scholar, who dwells

        a territory or tell w is

        parliamentary in t?

        s were ever bold enougo

        stay a a y-pudding    w crisis

        approac a y retreat rat would shake

        to its foundations.     stood through a

        great many y-puddings.

        I did not plaster till it    over

        some e

        s, a sort of veyance which would have

        tempted me to go muche

        meanhe ground on every side.    In

        lato be able to send h a

        single blo ion to trahe

        plaster from to tly and rapidly.    I remembered

        tory of a ceited felloo

        lounge about t

        one day to substitute deeds for words, urned up his cuffs,

        seized a plasterers board, and ro

        mis look tohing overhead, made a

        bold gesture traigo e

        disfiture, received tents in his ruffled bosom.    I

        admired aneering, which so

        effectually ss out takes a handsome finish, and I

        learies to werer is liable.    I

        o see y the bricks were which drank up all

        ture in my plaster before I , and how many

        pailfuls of er it takes to    a new he

        previous er made a small quantity of lime by burning the shells

        of tilis, whe sake of

        t; so t I knew werials came from.    I

        mig good limestone

        myself, if I o do so.

        t and

        s coves, some days or even he general

        freezing.    t ice is especially iing and perfect,

        being ransparent, and affords t opportunity

        t ever offers for examining ttom w is shallow; for

        you    lie at your lengter

        i on ter, and study ttom at your

        leisure, only tant, like a picture behind a

        glass, and ter is necessarily alhere are

        many furroure ravelled about and

        doubled on its tracks; and, for    is strehe cases

        of caddis-e grains of z.    Perhaps

        t, for you find some of the

        furroo make.    But the

        ice itself is t of most i, t improve

        t opportunity to study it.    If you exami closely the

        m after it freezes, you find t ter part of the

        bubbles,    appeared to be , are against its

        under surface, and t more are tinually rising from ttom;

        ively solid and dark, t is, you

        see ter t.    tieto an

        eiger, very clear aiful, and you see

        your face reflected in ty or

        forty of to a square inche

        iarro half an inch long,

        sener, if te

        frese sply above another, like a

        string of beads.    But t so numerous nor

        obvious as times used to cast on stoo try

        trengthrough carried in

        air e bubbles

        beo ty-eight hours

        after till perfect,

        tinctly by

        t as t two days had been

        very    noransparent,

        ser, and ttom, but

        opaque and hick was hardly

        stroly expanded under

        t and run toget ty; they were no

        longer one directly over anot often like silvery s

        poured from a bag, one overlapping anothin flakes, as if

        occupying sligy of t

        oo late to study ttom.    Being curious to know w

        position my great bubbles occupied o the new ice, I

        broke out a cake taining a middling sized one, and tur

        bottom uphe bubble,

        so t it    was whe

        lo close against ttish, or perhaps

        sligicular, er of an inch deep

        by four incer; and I o find t

        directly ued    regularity

        in to t of five eighths of

        an incition the

        er and thick; and in many

        places tition    out downward,

        and probably t all u bubbles,

        er.    I inferred t te number

        of minute bubbles    the under surface

        of t eacs

        degree, ed like a burning-glass on to melt

        and rot it.    ttle air-guo make

        the ice crad whoop.

        At lengter set in good ear, just as I had finished

        plastering, and to    had

        not o do so till t after nighe geese

        came lumbering in tling of wings,

        even after to alight in

        alden, and some flying looward Fair haven, bound

        for Mexico.    Several times,    ten

        or eleven oclock at nigread of a flock of geese,

        or else ducks, on the woods by a pond-hole behind

        my d honk or

        quack of they hurried off.    In 1845 alden froze

        entirely over for t time on t of the 22d of

        December, Flints and othe river having

        been frozen ten days or more; in 46, t the

        31st; and in 50, about th of

        January; in 53, t of December.    the snow had already covered

        th of November, and surrounded me suddenly

        er.    I    farto my shell,

        and endeavored to keep a brighin

        my breast.    My employment out of doors noo collect the dead

        , bringing it in my hands or on my shoulders, or

        sometimes trailing a dead piree under eay shed.    An

        old forest fence    days    haul for

        me.    I sacrificed it to Vul, for it    serving the god

        terminus.    eresting a is t mans supper

        o , nay, you might say,

        steal, to cook it    are s.

        ts and e s

        of most of our too support many fires, but

        he young wood.

        the

        summer I    of pitche bark on,

        pioget.    this I

        ly on ter soaking then

        lying    ly sound, terlogged

        past drying.    I amused myself one er day his

        piecemeal across ting beh

        one end of a log fiftee long on my sher on

        tied several logs togethe, and

        t the end,

        dragged tely erlogged and almost as

        only burned long, but made a very    fire;

        nay, I t t tter for the

        pitcer, burned longer, as in a lamp.

        Gilpin, in    of t borderers of England, says

        t "ts of trespassers, and the houses and fences

        t," ;sidered as great

        nuisances by t law, and were severely punished under

        tures, as tending ad terrorem ferarum -- ad

        notum forestae, etc.," to tening of the

        detriment of t.    But I erested in tion

        of t more ters or woodchoppers,

        and as muche Lord arden himself; and if any

        part    myself by act, I grieved

        lasted longer and

        of tors; nay, I grieved    dohe

        proprietors t our farmers w down

        a forest felt some of t awe whey

        came to t in t to, a secrated grove (lucum

        lucare), t is,    it is sacred to some god.

        tory , and prayed, ever god or

        goddess t to o me,

        my family, and cc.

        It is remarkable ill put upon wood even in

        try, a value more perma and

        universal t of gold.    After all our discoveries and

        iions no man    is as precious to

        us as it o our Saxon and Norman aors.    If their

        bo, ocks of it.    Micy

        years ago, says t the price of wood for fuel in New York and

        P;nearly equals, and sometimes exceeds, t of t

        al annually requires more

        to tance

        of tivated plains."    In tohe

        price of    steadily, and tion is, how

        muc is to be t .    Meics

        and tradesmen    on no other errand,

        are sure to attend tion, and even pay a high price for

        ter t is now many

        years t meo t for fuel and the

        materials of ts: the

        Parisian and t, the farmer and Robin hood, Goody Blake and

        parts of t,

        till a feicks from

        t to her could I do

        them.

        Every man looks at ion.    I

        love to ter to

        remind me of my pleasing work.    I had an old axe whiobody

        claimed, er days, on the sunny side of

        t tumps    of my

        bean-field.    As my driver prophey warmed

        me ting they

        no fuel could give out more .    As for

        to get to "jump" it;

        but I jumped ting a o

        it, made it do.    If it     least rue.

        A fe pireasure.    It is

        iing to remember ill

        cealed in ten

        gone prospeg over some bare ch pine wood

        ood, and got out t pine roots.    t

        iructible.    Stumps ty or forty years old, at least, will

        still be sound at the sapwood has all bee

        vegetable mould, as appears by thick bark f

        a ring level ant from the

        .    ithe

        marroore, yelloallow, or as if you ru a

        vein of gold, deep into t only I kindled my fire

        , wored up in my shed

        before t makes the

        woodche woods.    On a

        tle of ting

        too gave notice to the various

        s of alden vale, by a smoky streamer from my

        c I was awake.--

        Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,

        Melting t,

        Lark    song, and messenger of dawn,

        Cirg above ts as t;

        Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form

        Of midnigs;

        By nigar-veiling, and by day

        Darkening t and blotting out the sun;

        Go th,

        And ask to pardon this clear flame.

        cut, t little of t,

        aimes left a good

        fire o take a er afternoon; and when I

        returer ill alive and

        gloy t was as if I

        a c

        lived trusthy.    One

        day, ting    t I

        look in at t on fire; it was

        time I remember to icularly anxious on this

        score; so I looked and sa a spark    my bed, and I

        in ainguis w had burned a place as big as my

        my ered a position, and

        its roof    I could afford to let t in

        t any er day.

        ted in my cellar, nibbling every tato, and

        making a snug bed even t after plastering and

        of bro animals love fort and h

        as er only because they are so

        careful to secure them.    Some of my friends spoke as if I was ing

        to to freeze myself.    the animal merely makes a

        bed,    man,

        ment,

        and , instead of robbing    his bed, in

        ed of more cumbrous clotain

        a kind of summer in t of er, and by means of windows

        even admit t, and    thus he

        goes a step or tinct, and saves a little time for the

        fis.    to t blasts a

        long time, my orpid, whe

        genial atmospies and

        prolonged my life.    But t luxuriously tle to

        boast of in t, nor need rouble ourselves to speculate

        last destroyed.    It o

        cut time tle s from the

        n from Cold Fridays and Great Sno a

        little colder Friday, reater sno a period to mans

        existen the globe.

        t er I used a small cooking-stove for ey, since

        I did not o; but it did not keep fire so he

        open fireplace.    Cooking    part, no longer a

        poetic, but merely a , in

        toves, t o roast potatoes in the ashes,

        after tove not only took up room and

        sted t it cealed t as if I had

        lost a panion.    You    alhe

        laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies s of the

        dross aed during the day.

        But I could no longer sit and look into ti

        recurred to me h new force.--

        "Never, brigo me

        thy.

        but my    up?

        but my fortunes sunk so lo?

        th and hall,

        t weled and beloved by all?

        as teoo fanciful

        For our lifes on light, who are so dull?

        Did t gleam mysterious verse hold

        its too bold?

        ell, rong, for no

        Beside a ,

        a fire

        arms feet and o more aspire;

        By ilitarian heap

        t may sit doo sleep,

        Nor fear ts w walked,

        And    of talked."
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