Good Courage-The Church the Hospital for Men's Souls-Chaucer-Popped Corn-The Literary Style of the Laboring xiii Man-Sir Walter Raleigh- Calmness-The Perfume of the Earth-Unhealthiness of Morality-Music from a Music-Box-Raleigh's Faults-Man's Puny Fences-The Death of Friends- Chaucer the Poet of Gardens-Character and Genius-The History of Music- Chaucer's Way of Speaking of God-My Life-Dying a Transient Phenomenon- The Memory of Departed Friends-The Game of Love-A New Day-The Eye- Originality of Nature-Raleigh-The Most Attractive Sentences-Law and the Right-An Old Schoolmate-Carlyle's Writing-The Tracks of the Indian-The Stars and Man-Friendship-The Roominess of Nature-The Exuberance of Plain Speech-Action and Reflection-Common Sense in Very Old Books-Thoughts like Mountains-Insufficiency of Wisdom without Love-I am Time and the World-My Errand to Mankind-Two Little Hawks and a Great One-Flow in Books-Nature's Leniency toward the Vicious-Intercourse-A Fish Hawk- Poetry-Lydgate's "Story of Thebes"-Humor-Man's Destiny-The Economy of Nature. 308 CHAPTER VII. 1845-1846 (Æt. 27-29) The Beginning of the Life at Walden-A House in the Catskills-The Vital Facts of Life-Relics of the Indians-Auxiliaries and Enemies of the Bean- Field-Therien, the Canadian Woodchopper-A Visit from Railroad Men-Life of Primitive Man-Wild Mice-The Written and the Spoken Language-The Interest and Importance of the Classics-The Fragrance of an Apple-The Race of Man-The Mansions of the Air-Echo-"The Crescent and the Cross"- Carnac-The Heroic Books-Screech Owls-Bullfrogs-Nature and Art-Childhood Memories of Walden Pond-Truth-John Field, a Shiftless Irishman, and his Family-A Hard and Emphatic Life-Language-Plastering the House-Primitive Houses-The Cost of a House-The Romans and Nature-Jehovah and Jupiter- Some Greek Myths-Difficulty of Getting a Living and Keeping out of Debt- The Fox as an Imperfect Man-Reading suggested by Hallam's History of Literature-The Necessaries of Life-A xiv Dog Lost-Therien and the Chickadees-The Evening Robin-The Earth as a Garden-A Flock of Geese. 361 CHAPTER VIII. 1845-1847 (Æt. 27-30) The Hero-At Midnight's Hour-Wordsworth-Dying Young-The Present Time- Exaggeration-Carlyle's Discovery that he was not a Jackass-Longevity- Life and Death of Hugh Quoil, a Waterloo Soldier-Quoil's Deserted House- Old Clothes-Former Inhabitants of the Walden Woods-The Loon on Walden Pond-Ducks and Geese-The Pack of Hounds-An Unsuccessful Village-Concord Games-Animal Neighbors-Carlyle's Use of the Printer's Art-Northern Slavery-Brister and Zilpha-Making Bread-Emerson and Alcott-A Rabbit-A Town Officer. 403 CHAPTER IX. 1837-1847 (Æt. 20-30)