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Evelyn, John, quoted, 18; 252.
Expenses, see Cost; farm, 88;
outgo and income, bean-field,
253, 254.

Exploration of one's self, 494-
497.

Extra Vagance! depends on how
you are yarded, 500.

Face, imaginary formation by
thawing of the, 474.
Factory system, not best mode of
supplying clothing, 43.
Fair Haven, huckleberries

on

hill, 269, 271; 290; 308; 317;
385; 421; 430; Ledges, 432;
461; late ice on pond, 468.
Tarm, the Hollowell, 131; a
model, 308.

Farmer, John, reflections of, 345.
Farmer, visits from a long-head-
ed, 413.

Farmers, interesting in propor-
tion as they are poor, 308.
Fashion, worship of, 42.
Fate, what a man thinks of him-
self, his, 15.

Father tongue, written language
our, 159.

Fenda, wife of "Sippio Brister,"
399.

Field, John, an Irishman, story
of, 318.

Fine art, no place for a work of,
61, 62.
Fire, purification by, 108; "my
housekeeper," 392; man and,
393; an alarm of, 401.
Fishes, schools of, in Walden
Pond, 297; of thought, 417.
Fishing, with silent men, 272; at
night, 274; alone detains citi-
zens at Walden Pond, 332; im-
possible to T. without loss of
self-respect, 333; in winter,
438.

Fitchburg (Mass.), going to, 85;
Railroad, 180.
Flint's Pond, 284; or Sandy, in
Lincoln, 304-308; 314: covered
with snow, like Baffin's Bay,
419; 461, 462, 464, 465.
Food, a necessary of life, 21; the
fuel of man's body, 23; general
consideration of, 87-104; objec-
tions to animal, 334; desirabil-
ity of simple, 335-340.

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House, every spot possible site
for a, 128; the ideal, 377-380.
House-raising at Walden Pond,
73.

HOUSE-WARMING, 369-395.
Houses, superfluities in our, 58.
Housework, a pleasant pastime,
177.

Huckleberries never reach Bos-
ton, 271.

Hunters, boys to be made first
sportsmen, then, 330.
Hyde, Tom, the tinker, quoted,

505.

Hygeia, no worshiper of, 217.

I, the first person, retained in
this book, 8.

Ice, looking through the, on Wal-
den Pond, 382; whooping of
the, 422; cutting through, to
get water, 437; cutting on
Walden Pond, 452-460; beauty
of Walden, 457; booming of
the, 465.

Indian houses in Mass. colony,
49.

Ingraham, Cato, slave of Duncan,
397.

Inherited property a misfortune,
10.

Inspector of storms, self ap-
pointed, 31.

Iolas, and hydra's head, 10.
Irish, physical condition of the
poor, 57.

"It is no dream of mine," verse,
303.

Jays, arrival of the, 425.
Jesuits and Indian torture, 119.
Jesus Christ, liberalizing influ-
ence of, 170.

Johnson, Edward, quoted, 63.

Khoung-tsen, 150.
Kieou-he-yu, 150.
Kirby, William, and Spence,
quoted, 335; 360.
Kittlybenders, let us not play at,
509.

Laborer, choosing occupation of

a day, 111; falling in pond
with many clothes on, 120.
Laboring man has no time to be
anything but a machine, the, 12.

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Laing, Samuel, quoted, 45.
Lake, the earth's eye, a, 291.
Lake Champlain, Long Wharf to,

187.
"Leach-hole" in Walden Pond,
450.

Leaf, resemblance of sand for-
mation to a, 472.
Lexington (Mass.), 129.
Liebig, J. F. von, quoted, 23.
Life, cares and labors of, 12; an
experiment, 17; students not
to play or study life, but to
live, 82; purposes of, 143; one
has imagined, living the, 498
live your, however mean, 505;
in us, like the water in the
river, 513.

"Light-winged Smoke, Icarian
Bird," verse, 391.
Lilac, growing by deserted
houses, 407.
Limits of living, 13.
Lincoln (Mass.), 136; 192; owls
in woods of, 196; 244; Flint's
Pond in, 204; chestnut woods
of, 370; 397; burying-ground,
399; 410.

Lining of beauty for houses, 65.
Little Reading, 165.

Loneliness, desirable, 208, 214.
Loon, hunting and a game with
the, 363-368.

Luxury, fruit of a life of, 25.
Lyceum, 171, 172.

Make-a-Stir, Squire, 14.
Manilla hemp, 187.

Maples, autumn colors of, 372.
assasoit, visited by Winslow,
222.

Maturing, no need of haste to-
wards, 502.
Mencius, quoted, 342.
Mentors, of little use, 17.
Middlesex Cattle Show, 54.
Milky Way? is not our planet in
the, 208.

Minding his business, till ineli-
gible as town officer, T., 31.
Minerva, Momus objects to house
of, 55.

Mir Camar Uddin Mast, quoted,

157.

Mirabeau, on highway robbery,
quoted, 497.

Model farm, a, 308.

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Nature, adapted to our weakness
as to our strength, 20; a liberty
in, 202; no melancholy or sol-
itude in the midst of, 205-207;
the medicines of, 216; known
only as a robber by the farmer,
258; men who become a part of,
328; questions and answers of,
436; our knowledge of the laws
of, 448; helping lay the keel of,
467; principle of operations of,
475; man's need of, 489.
Necessaries of life, 21.
Necessity, a seeming fate, com-
monly called, 11.
Negro slavery, 14.
Neighborhood, avoiding a bad,
ourselves, 55.

Neva marshes at Walden Pond,

110,
35.
New clothes, beware of all enter-
prises requiring, 39.
New England, Walden of and for
people of, 9; hardships en-
dured that men may die in,
25; wealth causes respect in,
38; mean life lived by inhabi-
tants of, 152; can hire all the
wise men of the world to teach
her, 173; ntral sports of,
329; Rum, 400; Night's Euter-
tainment, a, 417

New Hollander, naked when
European shivers in clothes,

22.

New Netherland, Secretary of
Province, quoted, 63.
"News? What's the," 147; fu-
tility of the, 148.
Night, walking the woods by,
265-268.

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Pantaloons not to be mended like
legs, 37.

Partridge, the, 352-354; 427; 435.
Pauper, visit from half-witted,
235.

Penance, people of Concord do-
ing, 9.

Penobscot Indians, living in cot-
ton tents, 47.

Perfection, artist of Kouroo who
strove after, 503.

Pfeiffer, Mane. Ida, quoted, 38.
Philanthropy, generally consid-
ered, 118-126.

Philosopher, what he is and is

not, 26; visits from a, 415-418.
Philosophers, ancient, poor in
outward, rich in iuward rich-
es, 25.
Pickerel, Walden, 288, 289, 439.
Pine-tree, felling, chugh more its
friend than foe, 69.
Plants, the nobler valued for

their fruit in air and light, 27.
Plato, 169; definition of a man,
232.

Pleasant Meadow, adjunct to
Baker Farm, 317.
Poet. See Dialogue; visits from
a, 414.

Poets, never yet read by man-
kind, 164.

POND IN WINTER, THE, 436-460.
PONDS, THE, 271-313.

Poor, houses of the, 56.
Post-office, easily dispensed with,
148.

Present moment, meeting of two

eternities, past and future, 29.
Public opinion, compared with
private, 14.

Pumpkin, sitting alone on a, 60;
none so poor that he need sit
on a, 104.
Purslane, dinner of, 98.

Quoil, Hugh, an Irishman, 405.

Rabbit, the, 435.

Railroad, car, growing luxuries
in, 60; slowness and heedless-
ness of, 85, 86; men overrid-
den by, 146; listening with
praise to sound of, 180-192;
Iron, Trojan Horse ruining
Walden, 301.

Rain, enjoyment of, 208.
Rainbow, standing in light of,
316.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, quoted, 11.
READING, 156-173.
Reality, finding, 154.
Realometer, not Nilometer, but
ຄ, 154.

Rent, annual tax that would buy
a village of wigwams, 50.
Reporter, with labor for pains,

30.

Resignation, confirmed desper-
ation, 15.

Robin, the evening, 481.
Room for thoughts, 219.
Runaway slave, 237.

Sadi of Shiraz, Sheik, quoted,
125.

Saint Vitus' dance, 147.

Sensuality, in eating and other
appetites, 340–346.
Serenade, like the music of the
cow, 193.

Sewing, work you may call end-
less, 38.

Shanty, purchase of Collins's, 69,
70.

Shelter, a necessary of life, 22;
how it became a necessary, 45;
generally considered, 45-66.
Shingles of thought, whittling,
417.

Shirts, our liber, or true bark,
40.

Simplicity of life, 144.
Skins, sale of, 432.
Sleepers, railroad, 146.
Snake under water in torpid
state, 67.

Snow, the Great, 186; 201; dating
from the Great, 394; walking
in the, 410.

Society, commonly too cheap,
213.

SOUNDS, 174-201.

South, laborers a staple produc-
tion of the, 58.

Spain, specimen news from, 149.
Sparrow, the first, of spring, 478.
Spectator, the part of man which
is, 211.

Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 222.
Sportsmen, making boys, 330.
SPRING, 461-492.

Spring, coming of the, 466;
morning, moral effect of a, 484.
Squire Make-a-Stir, 14.
Squirrel, red, watching the, 422-
425; in spring, coming of, 478.
Staff, the artist's, which became
the fairest creation of Brahma,
503.

Sand formations due to thaw, Statistics. See Cost.
469-475.

Sand cherry, tasted out of com-
pliment to Nature, 178.
Sardanapalus, at best houses
traveler considered a, 60.
Savage, his advantage over civil-
ized man, 52; life, instinct to-
wards, 326.

Scarecrow taken for man whose
clothes it wears, 37.
School, the uncommon, 173.
Seeds of virtues, not beans,
255.

Stone, nations' pride in ham-
mered, 92.

Stove, disadvantages of cooking-,
394.

Stratton, now the Alms House,
Farm, 397; family, homestead
of, 399.
Students, poor, Walden addressed
to, 8.

Sudbury (Mass.), 138; 468.
Sumach growing by T.'s house.
179.

Survey of Walden Pond, 441-45%

Jurveyor of forest paths and Tintinnabulum from without, the

across lot routes, 31.

Sutton (Mass.), 410.

Teli g-thang, quoted, 140.
Temperature of pond water in
spring, 461.

Tests, our lives tried by a thou-
sand simple, 18.
Thanksgivings, cattle-shows and
so-called, 257.

Thaw, sand formations due to,
469; Thor and, 477.
"They," an authority impersonal
as the Fates, 41.
Thieving, practiced only where
property is unevenly divided,

270.

Thor and thaw, 477.

Thoreau, Henry David, goes to
live by Walden Pond, 7; pre-
fers to talk in the first person
singular, 8; beginning in the
woods, 66; purchase of Col-
lins's shanty, 69; began to oc-
cupy house, 73; planted beans,
87; earnings and spendings,
91-96; making bread, 98; de-
clined offer of a mat, 107; im-
aginary purchase of Hollowell
farm, 131; situation of house,
135, 178; purpose in going to
woods, 143; hoed beans, did
not read books, 175; listening
to various sounds, 180-201;
friendship with Canadian
wood-chopper, 221-231; devo-
tion to husbandry, 252; earn-
ings and spendings on bean-
field, 253,254; put in jail for
not paying tax93, 268; fishing
in Walden Pond, 272-275;
boiling chowder about 1824,
283; earliest days on Walden
Pond, 300; first begins to in-
habit house in cold weather,
376; finishes house with plas-
tering, 380; surveys Walden
Pond, 441; leaves Walden,
Sept. 6, 1847, 492.

Thoughts, sell your clothes and
keep your, 506.

Thrasher, brown, 246, 247.
Thseng-tseu, quoted, 339.
Tierra del Fuego, 20.

noise of contemporaries, 507.
Tools, men the tools of their, 61.
Trees, visits to particular, 315.
Truth, to be preferred to all
things, 510.

Turtle-dove, long ago lost hound,
bay horse, and, 29.

Varro, Marcus Terentius, quoted,

258.

Vedas, the, quoted, 141; and
Zendavestas, 164; quoted, 339.
Vegetable-made bones, oxen
with, 17.

VILLAGE, THE, 261-270.
Village, should play part of a
nobleman as patron of art,
171-173; a great news-room,
262; running the gauntlet in
the, 263.

Vishnu Purana, the, quoted, 418.
VISITORS, 218-240.

Vivid Lake as a name for White
Pond, 300.

Wachito River, 148.

Walden, road, townsman on, 209;
vale, giving notice, by smoke,
so inhabitants of, 391; snow in
roads of, 413; vale, making
amends for silence, to, 414.
Walden Pond, house on the shore
of, 7; purpose in living by, to
transact private business, 33;
advantages of, as a place of
business, 35; March, 1845, went
to woods by, 66; of their own
natures, fishing in the, 204; no
more lonely than, 214; old
settler who dug, 215; bottom-
less as, 234; scenery of, 275-
304; origin of paving of, 285;
temperature of water in, 287;
animale in, 288-290; purity of,
302; fishing alone detains citi-
zens at, 332; ducks on, 368;
first ice on, 382; dates of first
freezing over, 386; 408; bare
of snow, 420; fox on thin ice
of, 428; 429; pickerel of, 439;
surveying and sounding, 441-
452; cutting ice on, 452-460;
breaking up of ice in, 460-467;
dates of complete opening, 467.

Time, but a stream to fish in, Walden Woods, geese alighting

155.

in, 385; Cato Ingraham living

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