only new

    and ser routes to many points, but neheir surfaces

    of ts Pond,

    after it en paddled about and

    skated over it, it edly range t I

    could t Baffins Bay.  the Lincoln hills rose up

    around me at tremity of a snowy plain, in w

    remember to ood before; and t an

    indeterminable distance over t heir

    her

    loomed like fabulous creatures, and I did not know whey were

    giants or pygmies.  I took t to lecture in

    Lincoln in travelling in no road and passing no house

    beture room.  In Goose Pond, which lay

    in my s d, and raised their cabins high

    above t.

    alden, being like t usually bare of snoh only

    serrupted drifts on it, was my yard where I could walk

    freely  deep on a level elsewhere

    and to treets.  there, far from

    treet, and except at very long intervals, from the

    jingle of sleiged, as in a vast moose-yard

    rodden, over doh

    snoling h icicles.

    For sounds in er nigen in er days, I heard

    t melodious note of a ing oely far;

    sucruck h a

    suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of alden ood, and

    quite familiar to me at last, t

    .  I seldom opened my door in a er evening

    ; he

    first ted somew like how der do; or

    sometimes  in ter,

    before t nine oclock, I artled by

    tepping to the

    sound of tempest in they flew low

    over my oward Fair haven,

    seemingly deterred from settling by my ligheir commodore

    .  Suddenly an unmistakable

    cat-o remendous voice

    I ever ant of t regular

    intervals to termined to expose and disgrace this

    intruder from ing a greater compass and

    volume of voice in a native, and boo- of Concord horizon.

    do you mean by alarming tadel at time of night

    consecrated to me?  Do you t napping at such an

    I  got lungs and a larynx as well as

    yourself?  Boo-

    t, if you had a

    discriminating ear, t ts of a concord such

    as these plains never saw nor heard.

    I also

    bed-fello part of Concord, as if it less in its

    bed and urn over, roubled ulency and had

    dreams; or I ,

    as if some one eam against my door, and in the morning

    er of a mile long and a third

    of an inch wide.

    Sometimes I ,

    in moonligs, in searcridge or other game, barking

    raggedly and demoniacally like forest dogs, as if laboring h some

    anxiety, or seeking expression, struggling for ligo be dogs

    outrigreets; for if ake to

    our account, may t be a civilization going on among brutes

    as o me to be rudimental, burrowing men,

    still standing on ting transformation.

    Sometimes one came near to my tracted by my light, barked

    a vulpine curse at me, and treated.

    Usually the

    dahe house,

    as if sent out of the

    er I t  corn, which had

    not got ripe, on to t by my door, and was amused by

    cions of ted by it.

    In ts came regularly and made a

    y meal.  All day long t, and

    afforded me mucertainment by their manoeuvres.  One would

    approac first he

    sno by fits and starts like a leaf blohe wind, now a

    fee of energy, making

    inconceivable e ;trotters,quot; as if it were for a wager,

    and no  never getting on more than half

    a rod at a time; and th a ludicrous

    expression and a gratuitous somerset, as if all the

    universe were eyed on ions of a squirrel, even

    in t solitary recesses of t, imply spectators as

    mucing more time in delay and

    circumspection to ance

    -- I never sahen suddenly, before you could say

    Jack Robinson, op of a young pitch pine, winding

    up ators, soliloquizing and

    talking to all t time -- for no reason t I

    could ever detect, or .  At length

    ing a suitable ear, frisk about

    in tain trigonometrical o topmost stick of my

    wood-pile, before my window, whe face, and

    t for ime to

    time, nibbling at first voraciously and the half-naked cobs

    about; till at lengty still and played h his

    food, tasting only the ear, which was

    ick by one paw, slipped from his careless

    grasp and fell to t it h a

    ludicrous expression of uncertainty, as if suspecting t it had

    life,  made up  it again, or a new one,

    or be off; noening to  was in

    ttle impudent felloe many an ear in

    a forenoon; till at last, seizing some longer and plumper one,

    considerably bigger t, he

    out  to tiger h a buffalo, by

    t pauses, scratch

    it as if it oo he while, making

    its fall a diagonal between a perpendicular and al, being

    determined to put it t any rate; -- a singularly frivolous

    and  to where he

    lived, per to top of a pine tree forty or fifty

    rods distant, and I erre the

    ions.

    At lengt screams were heard

    long before, as th of

    a mile off, and in a stealt from

    tree to tree, nearer and nearer, and pick up the

    squirrels ting on a pitchey

    attempt to se a kernel woo big for

    ts and cer great labor they disgorge

    it, and spend an o crack it by repeated blows

    ly t much

    respect for t t first s to

    aking heir own.

    Meanwhe chickadees in flocks, which, picking up

    to t twig and,

    placing t their

    little bills, as if it  in till they were

    sufficiently reduced for ts.  A little flock of

    titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my he

    crumbs at my door,  flitting lisping notes, like the

    tinkling of icicles in tly day day

    day, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery phe-be

    from t at length one

    alig

    ticks  fear.  I once  upon my

    s while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I

    felt t I inguis circumstance than I

    s I could he squirrels

    also gre last to be quite familiar, and occasionally stepped

    upon my s  way.

    yet quite covered, and again near the

    end of er, h hillside and

    about my ridges came out of the woods morning and

    evening to feed the

    partridge bursts away on whe

    dry leaves and the

    sunbeams like golden dust, for t to be scared

    by er.  It is frequently covered up by drifts, and, it is said,

    quot;sometimes plunges from on o t snow, w remains

    concealed for a day or t;  I used to start the open land

    also,  sunset to quot;budquot; the

    rees.  to

    particular trees,  for them,

    and tant orc t a little.  I

    am glad t tridge gets fed, at any rate.  It is Natures

    own bird w drink.

    In dark er mornings, or in s er afternoons, I

    sometimes h

    o resist tinct of the chase,

    and te of ting- intervals, proving t man was

    in t no fox bursts forth on

    to their

    Actaeon.  And per evening I see ters returning h a

    single brusrailing from tropheir

    inn.  tell me t if the

    frozen eartraight line

    away no foxake ,  his pursuers

    far beops to rest and listen till they come up, and when

    o s,

    imes, however, he will run upon a wall many rods, and

    to one side, and o kno er

    retain .  A er told me t he once saw a fox

    pursued by  out on to alden whe ice was covered

    urn to the

    same s  the

    scent.  Sometimes a pack ing by themselves would pass my door,

    and circle round my  regarding me,

    as if afflicted by a species of madness, so t nothing could

    divert t.  til they fall upon

    t trail of a fox, for a wise hing

    else for to my  from Lexington to

    inquire after  made a large track, and had been

    ing for a   the wiser

    for all I told ime I attempted to answer his

    questions errupted me by asking, quot; do you do ;  he

    a dog, but found a man.

    One old er o bathe

    in alden once every year , and at such

    times looked in upon me, told me t many years ago ook his gun

    one afternoon and  out for a cruise in alden ood; and as he

    he cry of hounds approaching, and

    ere long a fox leaped to the road, and as quick as

    t leaped t of t bullet

    touched him.  Some way behind came an old hound and her

    t, ing on t, and

    disappeared again in te in ternoon, as he was

    resting in the voice of

    tohe fox; and on

    the woods ring sounding

    nearer and nearer, nohe Baker Farm.

    For a long time ood still and listened to t

    to a ers ear, whe

    solemn aisles h an easy coursing pace, whose sound was concealed

    by a sympatic rustle of t and still, keeping the

    round, leaving his pursuers far behind; and, leaping upon a rock

    amid t erect and listening, o the

    er.  For a moment compassion restrained tters arm; but

    t  can follow

    t he fox, rolling over

    ter still kept his place

    and listened to till on the near

    heir demoniac cry.

    At lengt into vieo the ground,

    and snapping tly to the rock;

    but, spying the dead fox, she suddenly ceased her hounding as if

    struck dumb , and walked round and round him in

    silence; and one by one her,

    o silence by tery.  ter came

    forood in t, and tery hey

    ed in silence whe brush

    a urned off into t

    evening a eston squire came to ters cottage to

    inquire for old hey had been

    ing on t from eston er

    told   ther

    declined it and departed.   find  night,

    but t day learned t t up

    at a farm, whey

    took ture early in the morning.

    ter ting, who

    used to  bears on Fair heir skins

    for rum in Concord village; wold  he had seen a

    moose tting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne -- he

    pronounced it Bugine -- o borrohe

    quot;ast Bookquot; of an old trader of town, wain,

    toative, I find try.  Jan.

    18t;Jo;; t

    noton

    quot;by 1/2 a Catt skin 0--1--4+quot;; of course, a , for

    Stratton  in t have

    got credit for ing less noble game.  Credit is given for

    deerskins also, and till preserves

    t deer t y, and

    anotold me ticulars of t in which his uncle

    ers were formerly a numerous and merry crew

    Nimrod wch up a leaf by

    train on it wilder and more melodious, if

    my memory serves me, ting-horn.

    At midnigimes met h hounds

    in my pat t of my

    and silent amid till I had

    passed.

    Squirrels and ed for my store of nuts.  there

    co four inches

    in diameter, wer -- a

    Norer for they

    o mix a large proportion of pine bark her

    diet.  trees ly flouris

    midsummer, and many of t, tely

    girdled; but after anoter suc exception dead.

    It is remarkable t a single mouse shus be allowed a whole

    pine tree for its dinner, gnaead of up and do;

    but per is necessary in order to trees, which are

    to grow up densely.

    the hares (Lepus Americanus) were very familiar.  One had her

    form under my er, separated from me only by the

    flooring, and sartled me eacy departure

    ir -- triking her head

    against timbers in o come round my

    door at dusk to nibble tato parings w,

    and  they could hardly be

    distinguisill.  Sometimes in tely

    lost and recovered sigting motionless under my window.

    h a

    squeak and a bounce.  Near at ed my pity.  One

    evening one sat by my door t first trembling

    uno move; a poor hing, lean and bony,

    tail and slender pa

    looked as if Nature no longer contained the breed of nobler bloods,

    but stood on  toes.  Its large eyes appeared young and

    un dropsical.  I took a step, and lo, a scud

    ic spring over t, straigs body

    and its limbs into graceful lengt t between

    me and itself -- ting its vigor and the

    dignity of Nature.  Not  reason s slenderness.  Such

    ts nature.  (Lepus, levipes, lig, some think.)

    is a country  rabbits and partridges?  they are

    among t simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and

    venerable families knoo antiquity as to modern times; of the

    very ance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to

    to one anot is eit is

    legged.  It is ure when a

    rabbit or a partridge bursts aural one, as muco be

    expected as rustling leaves.  tridge and t are still

    sure to true natives of tever revolutions

    occur.  If t is cut off, ts and bushes which

    spring up afford t, and they become more numerous

    t must be a poor country indeed t does not support

    a eem h, and around every swamp may

    be seen tridge or rabbit  wiggy fences and

    ends.