As I came ring of fish,

        trailing my pole, it being noe dark, I caught a glimpse of a

        a strahrill of

        savage deligrongly tempted to seize and devour him

        ra t I    wildness which he

        represented.    Once or the pond, I

        found myself ranging tarved h a

        strange abando, seeking some kind of venison w

        devour, and no morsel could oo savage for me.    the

        ses ably familiar.    I found in

        myself, and still find, an instinct toward a    is

        named, spiritual life, as do most men, and anotoward a

        primitive rank and savage one, and I revereh.    I love

        t less ture t

        are in fisill ree to me.    I like sometimes to take

        rank he animals do.    Perhaps

        I o t and to ing, we young, my

        closest acquaintance ure.    troduce us to and

        detain us in sery    t age, we should

        tle acquaintance.    Fisers, woodchoppers, and

        othe fields and woods, in a peculiar

        sense a part of Nature ten in a more favorable

        mood for    ervals of ts, than

        ps even, ion.    She

        is not afraid to ex o traveller on the

        prairie is naturally a er, on ters of the Missouri

        and bia a trapper, and at t. Mary a fisherman.

        raveller learns t sed-he

        y.    e are most ied when sce

        reports ically or instinctively,

        for t alone is a true y, or at of human experience.

        take    ts,

        because    so many public

        play so many games as the more

        primitive but solitary amusements of ing, fishe like

        yet given place to t every New England

        boy among my poraries she

        ages of ten and fourteen; and ing and fishing grounds were

        not limited, like t were

        more boundless even t

        ofteay to play on t already a ge

        is taking place, o to an increased y, but to an

        increased scarcity of game, for perer is test

        friend of ted, not excepting ty.

        Moreover, imes to add fiso my

        fare for variety.    I ually fishe same kind of

        y t t fisever y I might

        jure up against it itious, and ed my

        phan my feelings.    I speak of fishing only now, for

        I    differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I

        to t t I am less    I did

        not perceive t my feelings    pity

        t.    As for fowling, during

        t years t I carried a gun my excuse    I was

        studying ornit only ne I

        fess t I am noo t there is a finer way of

        studying ornit requires so much closer

        attention to ts of t, if for t reason only,

        I o omit t notanding the

        obje on ty, I am pelled to doubt if

        equally valuable sports are ever substituted for these; and when

        some of my friends    ther

        t t, I

        it    parts of my education -- make ters,

        tsmen only at first, if possible, migers at last,

        so t t find game large enoughis or

        aable wilderness -- ers as well as fishus

        far I am of the opinion of Chaucers nun, who

        "yave not of text a pulled hen

        t sait ers ben not ;

        tory of the race,

        ;best men," as them.

        e ot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more

        ion ed.    this was my

        ans to t on t,

        trusting t tgro.    No    the

        tless age of boyonly murder any creature which

        s life by te s

        extremity cries like a c my

        sympat alins.

        Suest trodu to t, and

        t inal part of    first as a

        er and fisil at last, if ter

        life in inguiss, as a poet or

        naturalist it may be, and leaves the

        mass of meill and al.    In some

        tries a ing parson is no unon sig

        make a good s is far from being the Good Shepherd.

        I o sider t t,

        except ing, or the like business, which ever

        to my knoai alden Pond for a whole half-day any of

        my felloizens, h

        just one exception,

        time, u a long

        string of fisunity of seeing the pond

        all t go times before the

        sediment of fiso ttom and leave their purpose

        pure; but no doubt such a clarifying process would be going on all

        tly remember the pond,

        for t a-fis nohey are

        too old and digo go a-fis no more

        forever.    Yet even t to go to    last.    If the

        legislature regards it, it is culate the number of

        o be used t t the hook of

        o angle for tself, impaling the

        legislature for a bait.    ties, the

        embryo man passes ter stage of development.

        I edly, of late years, t I ot fish

        falling a little in self-respect.    I ried it again and

        again.    I    it, and, like many of my felloain

        instinct for it, o time, but always when I

        it er if I    fished.

        I t I do not mistake.    It is a faint intimatio so are

        t streaks of m.    tionably tinct

        in me io h every

        year I am less a fis more y or even

        present I am no fis all.    But I see t if I

        o live io bee a

        fiser in ear.    Beside, thing

        essentially un about t and all fleso

        see ws

        so muco idy and respectable appearance eaco keep

        t and free from all ill odors and sights.    having been

        my ocleman for

        whe dishes were served up, I    speak from an unusually

        plete experieical obje to animal food in my

        case s unness; and besides, w and ed

        and cooked aen my fis to have fed me

        essentially.    It    and unnecessary, and ore

        t came to.    A little bread or a featoes would have done

        as rouble and filth.    Like many of my

        poraries, I had rarely for many years used animal food, or

        tea, or coffee, etot so mucs which I

        raced to t agreeable to my

        imagination.    to animal food is not t of

        experience, but is an instinct.    It appeared more beautiful to live

        lohough I never did so, I

        far enougo please my imagination.    I believe t every man

        o preserve ic faculties

        in t dition icularly ined to abstain from

        animal food, and from muc is a signifit

        fact, stated by entomologists -- I find it in Kirby and Spence --

        t "some is in t state, th

        ans of feeding, make no use of t;; and t do;a

        general rule, t almost all is in tate eat much less

        t of larvae.    terpillar wransformed

        into a butterfly ... and ttonous maggot w;

        tent two of

        liquid.    tterfly still

        represents tidbit s his

        iivorous fate.    tate;

        and tions in t dition, nations    fancy

        or imagination, ray them.

        It is o provide and cook so simple and    a diet as

        offend tion; but to be fed

        table.

        Yet pers eaten temperately need not

        make us asites, nor interrupt t

        pursuits.    But put ara ent into your dis will

        poison you.    It is not o live by rich cookery.

        Most men heir own hands

        precisely sucable food, as is

        every day prepared for t till therwise

        civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men

        and ainly suggests

        may be vain to ask    be reciled to

        fles.    I am satisfied t it is not.    Is it not a reproach

        t man is a ivorous animal?    true, he    and does live, in a

        great measure, by preying on ot this is a miserable

        s, or slaughtering

        lambs, may learn -- and or of his

        race    and

        ice may be, I

        t it is a part of tiny of ts gradual

        improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage

        tribes    off eating eacact

        he more civilized.

        If one listens to test but stant suggestions of his

        genius, rue,    to remes, or

        even insanity, it may lead    t way, as he grows more

        resolute and faitest assured

        obje h prevail over

        ts and s of mankind.    No man ever followed his

        genius till it misled    were bodily weakness,

        yet per to be

        regretted, for ty to higher principles.

        If t are suc you greet th joy, and

        life emits a fragrance like flo-sted herbs, is more

        elastic, more starry, more immortal -- t is your success.    All

        nature is your gratulation, and you arily to

        bless yourself.    test gains and values are fart from

        being appreciated.    e easily e to doubt if t.    e soon

        fet t reality.    Pers most

        astounding and most real are never unicated by man to man.    the

        true    of my daily life is someangible and

        indescribable as tints of m or evening.    It is a little

        star-dust caug of tched.

        Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could

        sometimes eat a fried rat    were necessary.

        I am glad to er so long, for t I

        prefer tural sky to an opium-eaters heaven.    I would fain

        keep sober ale degrees of drunkenness.    I

        believe t er is t so

        noble a liquor; and th a

        cup of ea!    Ah, how

        loed by them!    Even music may be

        intoxig.    Sucly sligroyed Greed

        Rome, and roy England and America.    Of all ebriosity, who

        does not prefer to be intoxicated by thes?    I have

        found it to be t serious obje to coarse labors long

        ti to eat and drink coarsely also.

        But to tell trut present somew less

        particular in ts.    I carry less religion to table,

        ask no blessing; not because I am , I am

        obliged to fess, because,    is to be regretted,

        .    Perhese

        questions are eained only in yout believe of poetry.

        My practice is "now; my opinion is heless I am far

        frarding myself as one of to whe

        Ved refers    "rue faithe

        Om Supreme Being may eat all t exists," t is, is not

        bound to inquire w is ; and even in

        t is to be observed, as a ator has

        remarked, t t limits to "time of

        distress."

        sometimes derived an inexpressible satisfa from

        ite o

        t I oal perception to the only gross sense of

        taste, t I e, t some

        berries he

        soul not being mistress of ; says tseu, "one looks,

        and one does not see; one listens, and one does not s,

        and one does not kno;    inguishe

        true savor of ton;

        ot be otan may go to    h

        as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to urtle.    Not t

        food o t tite

        is eaten.    It is y nor tity,

        but tion to sensual savors;

        a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but

        food for t possess us.    If ter aste for

        mud-turtles, muskrats, and otidbits, the fine lady

        indulges a taste for jelly made of a calfs foot, or for sardines

        from over to the mill-pond, she

        to .    they, how you and I,

        live tly life, eating and drinking.

        Our lingly moral.    there is never an

        instants truce betue and vice.    Goodness is the only

        iment t never fails.    In the harp which

        trembles round t is ting on thrills

        us.    travelling patterer for the Universes

        Insuranpany, reending its latle goodness is

        all t t    last grows

        indifferent, t indifferent, but are

        forever on t sensitive.    Listen to every zephyr

        for some reproof, for it is surely tunate who

        does not .    e ot t or move a stop but the

        sfixes us.    Many an irksome noise, go a long way

        off, is    satire on the meanness of our

        lives.

        e are scious of an animal in us, wion

        as our ure slumbers.    It is reptile and sensual, and

        per be whe worms which, even in

        life and hdraw from

        it, but never ature.    I fear t it may enjoy a certain

        s o    not pure.    ther day

        I picked up te and souh and

        tusks,    th and vigor

        distinct from tual.    ture succeeded by other means

        temperand purity.    "t in we

        beasts," says Mencius, "is a the on

        very soon; superior men preserve it carefully."    ho

        kno of life    if aio purity?

        If I kneeacy I o seek

        ;A and over our passions, and over ternal

        senses of ts, are declared by to be

        indispensable in tion to God."    Yet t

        for time pervade and trol every member and fun of

        transmute    sensuality

        into purity aion.    tive energy, which, when we are

        loose, dissipates and makes us un,

        invigorates and inspires us.    City is the fl of man; and

        w are called Genius,

        various fruits    oo God whe

        cy is open.    By turns our purity inspires and our

        impurity casts us dohe

        animal is dying out in he divine being

        establis has cause for shame on

        at of tisure to which he is allied.    I

        fear t he

        divine allied to beasts, tures of appetite, and t, to

        some extent, our very life is our disgrace.--

        "h due place assigned

        to s and disafforested his mind!

        . . . . . . .

        use t, ,

        And is not ass o all t!

        Else man not only is the herd of swine,

        But oo which did ine

        to a ;

        All sensuality is o takes many forms; all purity is

        one.    It is t, or drink, or co, or

        sleep sensually.    t one appetite, and o see

        a person do any one of to kno

        and nor sit y.    he

        reptile is attacked at one mout

        anote, you must be temperate.     is

        city?    e?     know

        it.    e ue, but     is.    e

        speak ably to tion

        e y; from sloty.    In the

        student sensuality is a sluggis of mind.    An un person

        is universally a slots by a stove, whe sun

        srate, igued.    If you

        ly, t

        be at ing a stable.    Nature is o be overe, but she

        must be overe.     avails it t you are , if you are

        not purer then, if you deny yourself no more, if you are

        not mious?    I knoems ioeemed

        s fill th shame, and provoke

        o o tes

        merely.

        I ate to say t it is not because of the

        subject -- I care not    because I

        ot speak of t betraying my impurity.    e discourse

        freely    sy, and are silent about

        anot    speak simply of the

        necessary funs of ure.    In earlier ages, in some

        tries, every fun ly spoken of and regulated by

        laoo trivial for the hindoo lawgiver, however

        offe may be to modern taste.    eaco eat, drink,

        co, void excrement and urine, and ting w is

        mean, and does not falsely excuse hings

        trifles.

        Every man is temple, called o the

        god er a style purely    off by

        ead.    e are all sculptors and painters, and

        our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.    Any nobleness

        begins at oo refine a maures, any meanness or

        sensuality to imbrute them.

        Jo at ember evening, after a hard

        days work, ill running on his labor more or less.

        doo re-create ellectual man.    It

        her cool evening, and some of his neighbors were

        appre.     atteo train of his

        ts long

        sound ill    of

        t    t running in his

        riving it against his

        it ed tle.    It he

        scurf of antly s tes

        of te came o    of a different sphere from

        t ed ain faculties which

        slumbered in ly did areet, and the

        village, and tate in wo him --

        ay his mean moiling life, when a

        glorious existence is possible for you?    tars twinkle

        over ot o e out of this

        dition and actually migrate t hink of

        o practise some y, to let o his

        body and redeem it, and treat .
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