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WALDEN;

 

OR,

 

LIFE IN THE WOODS.

 

By HENRY D. THOREAU,
AUTHOR OF "A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS."

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the
morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.—Page 92.

 

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LIV.