Friends-The Loading and Launching of the Boat-Gracefulness-On the Merrimack-The Era of the Indian-Fate of the Indian-Criticism's Apology- Life-Suspicion-The Purple Finch-Gower's Poetry-Light-Indian Implements- Success in Proportion to Average Ability-Kindness-Fog-The Attitude of Quarles and his Contemporaries towards Nature-The Mystery of Life-Three- o'clock-in-the-Morning Courage-A Recent Book-Museums-Some Old English Poets-Our Kindred-Friendship-Skating after a Fox-To a Marsh Hawk in the Spring-The Gardener-A Fisherman's Account at the Store-Finny Contemporaries-Marlowe-Thaw-Modern Nymphs-Living by Self-Defense-The Survival of the Birds-The Slaughter-House-The Tragedy of the Muskrat- Carlyle not to be Studied-The Subject of the Lecture-The Character of our Life-The Sovereignty of the Mind-Coöperation. 438 xvi ILLUSTRATIONS WHITE VIOLETS, Carbon photograph (page 304) Frontispiece VIEW FROM ANNURSNACK HILL Colored plate Colored plate HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN 1854, FROM THE ROWSE CRAYON IN THE CONCORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 1 FROST CRYSTALS AT THE MOUTH OF A HOLE IN A BANK 22 VIEW FROM ANNURSNACK HILL 84 TREES REFLECTED IN THE RIVER 140 WINTER LANDSCAPE FROM FAIRHAVEN HILL 296 xviii CANOEING IN THE WILDERNESS By Henry D. Thoreau Illustrated By Will Hammell ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X ILLUSTRATIONS The Indian Guide's Evening Prayer Frontispiece The Stage on the Road to Moosehead Lake 8 Making a Camp in the Streamside Woodland 52 Fishing 72 The Red Squirrel 78 Coming down the Rapids 132 Shooting the Moose 154 Carrying round the Falls 180 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of H. D. Thoreau, by Henry David Thoreau