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
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.
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,
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.
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,
Mirabeau, on highway robbery, quoted, 497.
Model farm, a, 308.
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,
New Netherland, Secretary of Province, quoted, 63. "News? What's the," 147; fu- tility of the, 148. Night, walking the woods by, 265-268.
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,
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,
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,
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
in, 385; Cato Ingraham living
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