House-Warming
that ever offers for examining the bottom where it is shallow; for
and probably there was no ice at all under the largest bubbles,
stronger than before, for the air bubbles had greatly expanded under
gone prospecting over some bare hillside, where a pitch pine wood
the ground since the 25th of November, and surrounded me suddenly
you without stamping. A house whose inside is as open and manifest
conlucare), that is, would believe that it is sacred to some god.
barberrys brilliant fruit was likewise food for my eyes merely; but
The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever god or
nay, I thought that they burned better for the soaking, as if the
the ice; or I tied several logs together with a birch withe, and
chimney, that I was awake.--
inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to
string of beads. But these within the ice are not so numerous nor
with the dry leaves of the forest, which I had stored up in my shed
being second-hand ones, required to be cleaned with a trowel, so
fresh, minute spherical bubbles one directly above another, like a
us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their
answered my purpose better than any other. I sometimes left a good
let wild Nature reign here once more, and the tender and luxurious
pitch, being confined by the water, burned longer, as in a lamp.
myself with clusters more precious for their beauty and fragrance
me. I sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it was past serving the god
love to have mine before my window, and the more chips the better to
themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would
meanwhile been shingled down to the ground on every side. In
Terminus. How much more interesting an event is that mans supper
glowing. My house was not empty though I was gone. It was as if I
then, with a longer birch or alder which had a book at the end,
wood in Paris, though this immense capital annually requires more
overshadowed it, was, when in flower, a bouquet which scented the
this age and in this new country, a value more permanent and
an inch in the middle, leaving a thin partition there between the
Where nothing cheers nor saddens, but a fire
doubled on its tracks; and, for wrecks, it is strewn with the cases
is to be presented with the freedom of the house, and not to be
tempestuous night, containing all the essentials of a house, and
goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me,
cell, and told to make yourself at home there -- in solitary
away in the North West Territory or the Isle of Man, tell what is
a ring level with the earth four or five inches distant from the
premises, and might have been legally ordered off, but I am not
could find, to save work and waste, and I filled the spaces between
of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth
steal, the fuel to cook it with! His bread and meat are sweet.
all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at
heart. With axe and shovel you explore this mine, and follow the
are the chief ornaments; where the washing is not put out, nor the
A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure. It is
artificial fire. I thus warmed myself by the still glowing embers
spiders, if they choose; a house which you have got into when you
years ago, says that the price of wood for fuel in New York and
about the rafters? These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and
still growing harder; but this is one of those sayings which men
that I learned more than usual of the qualities of bricks and
boast of in this respect, nor need we trouble ourselves to speculate
tempted me to go much farther if necessary. My house had in the
eaten in childhood, as I had told, and had not dreamed it. I had
tribe, is quite forgotten, or known only by its flowering vine; but
lower ice, but close against the upper, and was flattish, or perhaps
plaster from the board to the wall neatly and rapidly. I remembered
warm none, and, some think, hinder the growth of the young wood.
now sleep their long sleep under the railroad -- with a bag on my
the chimney carried smoke particularly well, because of the numerous
gradually disappeared, into what crevices I do not know, avoiding
whole neighborhood, but the squirrels and the jays got most of its
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
part was burned, though I burned it myself by accident, I grieved
were; in other words, the parlor is so far from the kitchen and
without the care of man the crow may carry back even the last seed
still be sound at the core, though the sapwood has all become
that "the encroachments of trespassers, and the houses and fences
built, and I poked the fire with more right and more satisfaction
keeping-room; and whatever satisfaction parent or child, master or
Many of the villages of Mesopotamia are built of second-hand bricks
came lumbering in the dark with a clangor and a whistling of wings,
though I had two, and we used to scour them by thrusting them into
carefully excluded from seven eighths of it, shut up in a particular
further journey; such a shelter as you would be glad to reach in a
Did thy bright 九*九*藏*书*网gleam mysterious converse hold
existence on the globe.
I sometimes stole, for the burs which they had selected were sure to
furniture. I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I
marrowy store, yellow as beef tallow, or as if you had struck on a
When I came to build my chimney I studied masonry. My bricks,
weary traveller may wash, and eat, and converse, and sleep, without
lathing I was pleased to be able to send home each nail with a
beneath. One day when I came to the same place forty-eight hours
the ice crack and whoop.
commonly. As if only the savage dwelt near enough to Nature and
heavy as lead, they not only burned long, but made a very hot fire;
previous winter made a small quantity of lime by burning the shells
the bricks about the fireplace with stones from the pond shore, and
great many hasty-puddings.
without them.
the sun, reflected from the pitch pine woods and the stony shore,
Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and
January; in 53, the 31st of December. The snow had already covered
than three hundred thousand cords, and is surrounded to the distance
under surface, and that more are continually rising from the bottom;
to see my work rising so square and solid by degrees, and reflected,
that, if it proceeded slowly, it was calculated to endure a long
piecemeal across the pond, nearly half a mile, skating behind with
when the reign of poetry commences here, its leaves and string of
afterward, I found that those large bubbles were still perfect,
was surprised to see how thirsty the bricks were which drank up all
However, only one or two of my guests were ever bold enough to
genial atmosphere of my house I soon recovered my faculties and
lying high six months it was perfectly sound, though waterlogged
nocumentum forestae, etc.," to the frightening of the game and the
At length the winter set in good earnest, just as I had finished
some in the recess of a window, and some on settles, some at one end
much like that of a frost-bitten potato, and I found it better
old clothes a king and queen who lived simply in such a house as I
by four inches in diameter; and I was surprised to find that
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
What but my hopes shot upward eer so bright?
leisure, only two or three inches distant, like a picture behind a
being hard, dark, and transparent, and affords the best opportunity
substantial, primitive hall, without ceiling or plastering, with
winter and unspeakable cold.
fruit; the last coming in flocks early in the morning and picking
Nature there. So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the
interesting to remember how much of this food for fire is still
itself reflected in the smooth mirror of the lake. Each morning the
even after the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its
materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the
your face reflected in them through the ice. There may be thirty or
good to see the soot form on the back of the chimney which I had
Nebuchadnezzar on them, I picked out its many fireplace bricks as I
modern palace will be all that I shall desire to learn, if ever I am
necessarily so far fetched, through slides and dumb-waiters, as it
of caddis-worms made of minute grains of white quartz. Perhaps
shore of the pond in a boat, a sort of conveyance which would have
remote from neighbors. All the attractions of a house were
trees to them and visited the more distant woods composed wholly of
New York; destined to be jammed, to satisfy the tastes of lovers of
to the woods on purpose to freeze myself. The animal merely makes a
went in and extinguished it when it had burned a place as big as my
time. The chimney is to some extent an independent structure,
bold gesture thitherward; and straightway, to his complete
shoulder, and a stick to open burs with in my hand, for I did not
a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows
furrows, though they are deep and broad for them to make. But the
careful to secure them. Some of my friends spoke as if I was coming
lounge about the village once, giving advice to workmen. Venturing
these days of stoves, that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes,
in the form of a saucer reversed, to the height of five eighths of
small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white
or else ducks, on the dry leaves in the woods by a pond-hole behind
the middle of almost any winter day.
reproofs of the red squirrels and the jays, whose half-consumed nuts
of summer. It was now November.
tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of
prolonged my life. But the most luxuriously housed has little to
score; so I looked and saw that a spark had caught my bed, and I
and endeavored to keep a bright fire both within my house and within
freezing. The first ice is especially interesting and perfect,
the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do
laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts of the
caused me to be put to it for room. He brought his own knife,
very warm, like an Indian summer, the ice was not now transpare99lib•netnt,
position my great bubbles occupied with regard to the new ice, I
I sometimes dream of a larger and more populous house, standing
were on the fire, so that no fuel could give out more heat. As for
dragged them across. Though completely waterlogged and almost as
been frozen ten days or more; in 46, the 16th; in 49, about the
frosts and wildness, prove itself indigenous, and resume its ancient
effectually shuts out the cold and takes a handsome finish, and I
hauled up partly on the shore. After soaking two years and then
nuisances by the old forest law, and were severely punished under
sometimes trailing a dead pine tree under each arm to my shed. An
Philadelphia "nearly equals, and sometimes exceeds, that of the best
take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them.
alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest
old forest fence which had seen its best days was a great haul for
never pleased my eye so much after it was plastered, though I was
day, however, as I was splitting wood, I thought that I would just
these have creased it, for you find some of their cases in the
The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn,
many furrows in the sand where some creature has travelled about and
caught in one.
have described, if I were going their way; but backing out of a
might have got good limestone within a mile or two and burned it
opaque and whitish or gray, and though twice as thick was hardly
obliged to confess that it was more comfortable. Should not every
the house to its foundations. Nevertheless, it stood through a
fabulous fruit, which I had begun to doubt if I had ever dug and
stems of other plants without knowing it to be the same.
longer one directly over another, but often like silvery coins
in a golden age, of enduring materials, and without gingerbread
took many weeks of steady blowing to accomplish it, it is so deep.
made the fireside of the pond; it is so much pleasanter and
chinks between the boards. Yet I passed some cheerful evenings in
November, I used to resort to the northeast side of Walden, which
expect hard times; it will be for his advantage, and virtue, and
eighth of an inch in diameter, very clear and beautiful, and you see
are sure to attend the wood auction, and even pay a high price for
stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next
universal than that of gold. After all our discoveries and
while the ice is as yet comparatively solid and dark, that is, you
ice narrow oblong perpendicular bubbles about half an inch long,
insect on the surface of the water, and study the bottom at your
oven that bakes your bread, and the necessary furniture and utensils
learned the various casualties to which the plasterer is liable. I
of the venison and the vert more than the hunters or woodchoppers,
With our congenial souls? secrets too bold?
always wait for the frost, amid the rustling of leaves and the loud
how the human race may be at last destroyed. It would be easy to
Why art thou banished from our hearth and hall,
Walden, and some flying low over the woods toward Fair Haven, bound
whence he is said to have brought it; but the now almost
smooth meadow in a snarl, heedlessly measuring them by the bushel
than for food. There, too, I admired, though I did not gather, the
began to use it for warmth as well as shelter. I had got a couple
the story of a conceited fellow, who, in fine clothes, was wont to
or eleven oclock at night, I heard the tread of a flock of geese,
For our lifes common light, who are so dull?
you can lie at your length on ice only an inch thick, like a skater
and tradesmen who come in person to the forest on no other errand,
fire when I went to take a walk in a winter afternoon; and when I
Cultivation has well-nigh exterminated it. It has a sweetish taste,
woodchoppers kindlings, when he has a camp in the woods. Once in a
reverence to the prostrate Saturn of an older dynasty on stepping
the nuts out of the burs before they fell, I relinquished these
myself, if I had cared to do so.
the ground in the morning, a course of bricks raised a few inches
the axe, I was advised to get the village blacksmith to "jump" it;
Like the wasps, before I finally went into winter quarters in
caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit," that is,
sharp cones with the apex upward; or oftener, if the ice is quite
claimed, with which by spells in winter days, on the sunny side of
cellar, and so learn whether the ground is solid or hollow beneath
When I began to have a fire at evening, before I plastered my house,
so many violent blows without being worn out. As my bricks had been
even after the ground was covered with snow, some to alight in
approaching they beat a hasty retreat rather, as if it would shake
price of wood rises almost steadily, and the only question is, how
the experiment; so that I knew where my materials came from. I
house. Indeed, I worked so deliberately, that though I commenced at
prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant. The
Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
upon a pole to see the roof; where some may live in the fireplace,
much higher it is to be this year than it was the last. Mechanics
little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to mans
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
so that it was included between the two ices. It was wholly in the
one day to substitute deeds for words, he turned up his cuffs,
queen posts stand out to receive your homage, when you have done
years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the
had formerly stood, and got out the fat pine roots. They are almost
scented the house, but it concealed the fire, and I felt as if I had
proprietor and travellers had overlooked. When chestnuts were ripe
the seam in the edge of a cake. But as the last two days had been
walls.
but I jumped him, and, putting a hickory helve from the woods into
my breast. My employment out of doors now was to collect the dead
seized a plasterers board, and having loaded his trowel without
words of a poet recurred to me with new force.--
stiff neck for it that I remember; my stiff neck is of older date.
thus raised on the borders of the forest," were "considered as great
I did not plaster till it was freezing weather. I brought over
jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.
The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest and
It is remarkable what a value is still put upon wood even in
with the scenery of winter. I withdrew yet farther into my shell,
morning after it freezes, you find that the greater part of the
full of knots, and rafters with the bark on high overhead. My house
Was thy existence then too fanciful
the moisture in my plaster before I had smoothed it, and how many
returned, three or four hours afterward, it would be still alive and
Beside a hearth where no dim shadows flit,
plastering, and the wind began to howl around the house as if it had
my family, and children, etc.
echo in it; but it seemed larger for being a single apartment and
such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are
glory." I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts
be, I was struck by the peculiar toughness of the steel which bore
servant, derive from living in a house, I enjoyed it all. Cato
What but my fortunes sunk so low in night?
water and the bubble, hardly an eighth of an inch thick; and in many
concentrated in one room; it was kitchen, chamber, parlor, and
pinned together by the Irish when the railroad was built. This I
the water. Ah, many a tale their color told! And gradually from
obvious as those beneath. I sometimes used to cast on stones to try
came to thin, or let in the light to, a consecrated grove (lucum
ice itself is the object of most interest, though you must improve
There are enough fagots and waste wood of all kinds in the forests
had left a cheerful housekeeper behind. It was I and Fire that
the only time I remember to have been particularly anxious on this
But I could no longer sit and look into the fire, and the pertinent
and rot it. These are the little air-guns which contribute to make
Hard green wood just cut, though I used but little of that,
of the hall, some at another, and some aloft on rafters with the
as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so
manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished
some whiter and cleaner sand for this purpose from the opposite
look in at the window and see if the house was not on fire; it was
who has just been forth in the snow to hunt, nay, you might say,
above the floor served for my pillow at night; yet I did not get a
The present may sit down and go to sleep,
which the summer, like a departed hunter, had left.
have opened the outside door, and the ceremony is over; where the
showing the dark green color of the water, and the bottom, but
cranberries, small waxen gems, pendants of the meadow grass, pearly
exterminated ground-nut will perhaps revive and flourish in spite of
"Never, bright flame, may be denied to me
often since seen its crumpled red velvety blossom supported by the
boiled than roasted. This tuber seemed like a faint promise of
and red, which the farmer plucks with an ugly rake, leaving the
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
bean-field. As my driver prophesied when I was plowing, they warmed
with a grief that lasted longer and was more inconsolable than that
it, made it do. If it was dull, it was at least hung true.
importance and independence are apparent. This was toward the end
having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment,
"an oil and wine cellar, many casks, so that it may be pleasant to
its roof was so low, that I could afford to let the fire go out in
bubbles, which at first appeared to be within it, are against its
wood in the forest, bringing it in my hands or on my shoulders, or
I did not own the forest; but it did not keep fire so well as the
I took a poet to board for a fortnight about those times, which
I laid up half a bushel for winter. It was very exciting at that
quack of their leader as they hurried off. In 1845 Walden froze
By whose compa99lib.netct utilitarian heap
slightly lenticular, with a rounded edge, a quarter of an inch deep
of three hundred miles by cultivated plains." In this town the
that cool and airy apartment, surrounded by the rough brown boards
bottom upward. The new ice had formed around and under the bubble,
says, the master of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his
poetic, but merely a chemic process. It will soon be forgotten, in
of old fire-dogs to keep the wood from the hearth, and it did me
The next winter I used a small cooking-stove for economy, since
obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening
detriment of the forest. But I was interested in the preservation
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling, which the
lost a companion. You can always see a face in the fire. The
of the Unio fluviatilis, which our river affords, for the sake of
indestructible. Stumps thirty or forty years old, at least, will
Warms feet and hands -- nor does to more aspire;
December, Flints and other shallower ponds and the river having
Thy dear, life imaging, close sympathy.
lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the
Nor fear the ghosts who from the dim past walked,
see the water through it. These bubbles are from an eightieth to an
confinement. Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth,
cut their threads any time with a little sharper blast from the
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose
nothing for house-keeping; where you can see all the treasures of
past drying. I amused myself one winter day with sliding this
Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three
fire, nor the mistress, and perhaps you are sometimes requested to
not trouble myself much to get rid of them; I even felt complimented
of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a
move from off the trap-door, when the cook would descend into the
and the dollar only, and sells the spoils of the meads to Boston and
English grains will probably disappear before a myriad of foes, and
Truth to borrow a trope from them. How can the scholar, who dwells
and garret; where you can see so necessary a thing, as a barrel or a
by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the
before the snow came. Green hickory finely split makes the
air with them, which formed very large and conspicuous white bubbles
imagination than fresco paintings or other the most expensive
apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some
the back without seeing some of its inhabitants; where to be a guest
of a very good quality, obtained from the ruins of Babylon, and the
Gilpin, in his account of the forest borderers of England, says
broke out a cake containing a middling sized one, and turned it
remind me of my pleasing work. I had an old axe which nobody
as a birds nest, and you cannot go in at the front door and out at
even admit the light, and with a lamp lengthen out the day. Thus he
their fires beyond the horizon, I too gave notice to the various
of the proprietors; nay, I grieved when it was cut down by the
which were a foot in diameter. I inferred that the infinite number
the earliest opportunity to study it. If you examine it closely the
molested me seriously, though they bedded with me; and they
contain sound ones. Occasionally I climbed and shook the trees.
stay and eat a hasty-pudding with me; but when they saw that crisis
bare rafters and purlins supporting a sort of lower heaven over
Harry Gill; in most parts of the world the prince and the peasant,
places the small bubbles in this partition had burst out downward,
of minute bubbles which I had first seen against the under surface
vein of gold, deep into the earth. But commonly I kindled my fire
when they were numbed with cold, I swept some of them out, but I did
standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens;
bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it. Michaux, more than thirty
lived there; and commonly my housekeeper proved trustworthy. One
the privilege of gleaning after the woodchopper. It is now many
north. We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a
vegetable mould, as appears by the scales of the thick bark forming
And with us by the unequal light of the old wood fire talked."
of corn to the great cornfield of the Indians God in the southwest,
also made my mortar with the white sand from the same place. I
grain-fields this humble root, which was once the totem of an Indian
and pay your respects to the fire that cooks your dinner, and the
of the ice were now frozen in likewise, and that each, in its
aware that I have been in many mens houses. I might visit in my
but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his
shallowest coves, some days or even weeks before the general
In October I went a-graping to the river meadows, and loaded
mishap, with a complacent look toward the lathing overhead, made a
the house at one view, and everything hangs upon its peg, that a man
importance and dignity as the diet of the hunter tribe. Some Indian
entirely over for the first time
九_九_藏_书_网on the night of the 22d of
degree, had operated like a burning-glass on the ice beneath to melt
Ceres or Minerva must have been the inventor and bestower of it; and
Thou who art welcomed and beloved by all?
Digging one day for fishworms, I discovered the ground-nut (Apios
of most of our towns to support many fires, but which at present
though an inch more of ice had formed, as I could see distinctly by
which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain
glass, and the water is necessarily always smooth then. There are
workshop. The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner,
for bread. Many other substitutes might, perhaps, be found.
forty of them to a square inch. There are also already within the
rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat
proprietors themselves. I would that our farmers when they cut down
and as much as though I had been the Lord Warden himself; and if any
nuts may be represented on our works of art.
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
single blow of the hammer, and it was my ambition to transfer the
dross and earthiness which they have accumulated during the day.
not had permission to do so till then. Night after night the geese
discomfiture, received the whole contents in his ruffled bosom. I
was too late to study the bottom. Being curious to know what
By night star-veiling, and by day
overhead, sometimes deterring visitors from entering. Each morning,
parliamentary in the kitchen?
concealed in the bowels of the earth. In previous years I had often
and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in
Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection. I
the name of purprestures, as tending ad terrorem ferarum -- ad
for Mexico. Several times, when returning from the village at ten
making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
directly under the bubble the ice was melted with great regularity
ones head -- useful to keep off rain and snow, where the king and
by their regarding my house as a desirable shelter. They never
future period. In these days of fatted cattle and waving
open fireplace. Cooking was then, for the most part, no longer a
wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an
while I got a little of this. When the villagers were lighting
hand. But my house occupied so sunny and sheltered a position, and
The wasps came by thousands to my lodge in October, as to winter
the earth. He shared with me the labors of cooking. I was pleased
a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when they
in a chimney before, though I did not read the name of
the house, I played about the stumps which I had got out of my
work, which shall still consist of only one room, a vast, rude,
distance. There is as much secrecy about the cooking as if he had a
than usual. My dwelling was small, and I could hardly entertain an
fine arts. Though, when I had been exposed to the rudest blasts a
Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some
one end of a log fifteen feet long on my shoulder, and the other on
ladder, so convenient a thing as a cupboard, and hear the pot boil,
trowels. The mortar on them was fifty years old, and was said to be
chestnut. These nuts, as far as they went, were a good substitute
long time, my whole body began to grow torpid, when I reached the
this heat and run together, and lost their regularity; they were no
week to week the character of each tree came out, and it admired
pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth. I had the
wild inhabitants of Walden vale, by a smoky streamer from my
Well, we are safe and strong, for now we sit
They grew also behind my house, and one large tree, which almost
31st; and in 50, about the 27th of December; in 52, the 5th of
the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from
the strength of the ice, and those which broke through carried in
quarters, and settled on my windows within and on the walls
after the Indian fashion. The stove not only took up room and
love to repeat whether they are true or not. Such sayings
The north wind had already begun to cool the pond, though it
season to roam the then boundless chestnut woods of Lincoln -- they
There was also the driftwood of the pond. In the course of the
cement on them is older and probably harder still. However that may
goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the
design to poison you. I am aware that I have been on many a mans
admired anew the economy and convenience of plastering, which so
me twice -- once while I was splitting them, and again when they
poured from a bag, one overlapping another, or in thin flakes, as if
should use; at once kitchen, pantry, parlor, chamber, storehouse,
over the sill; a cavernous house, wherein you must reach up a torch
occupying slight cleavages. The beauty of the ice was gone, and it
my dwelling, where they had come up to feed, and the faint honk or
bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man,
summer I had discovered a raft of pitch pine logs with the bark on,