Walden, Or, Life in the WoodsHoughton Mifflin, 1893 - 522 páginas |
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animal bad neighbor Baker Farm bark beans beautiful birds bottom called cellar cerned clothes color commonly Concord Concord River dark deep distant door dwelling earth England eyes Fair Haven farm farmer feet field fire fish Fitchburg Railroad forest Gondibert grass green ground half hand hear heard heaven hills holes hour hunter ical inches Indian John Field johnswort keep labor learned leaves live Loch Fyne log canoe look loon meadow mean mile morning muskrats Nature neighbors never night once perchance perhaps pickerel pine pond poor railroad rain rods sand savage season seen shore side snow sometimes sound spring standing stones sumachs summer surface things thought tion town traveller trees true veery village Walden Walden Pond walk warm wild wind winter woodchuck woods
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