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Spirit, motions of the, =6=, 97, 288; the Great, 14, 17, 177; Bad, of the Indians, 15.

Sportsmen, making boys, =2=, 234.

Spring, coming of the, =2=, 333, 334; morning, moral effect of a, 346, 71, 306, 376.

Springer, J. S., Forest Life, quoted, =3=, 21, note; on lumbering, quoted, 48, note; on the spruce tree, quoted, 75; about the digging of Spruce, the, =3=, 104; Indian words for black and white, 209; difference between black and white, 225.

Spruce beer, a draught of, =3=, 30.

Squash, the large yellow, =5=, 203.

Squaw Mountain, =3=, 183.

Squirrel, red, =1=, 206; watching, =2=, 301-303; in spring, coming of, pine cones stripped by the, 196.

Squirrel, striped, chipping, or ground, =1=, 205, 206; with filled Staff, the artist's, which became the fairest creation of Brahma, =2=, 359.

Staples, Samuel, constable and sheriff, =6=, 50, 52, 141.

Stark, General John, =1=, 268.

Staten Island, view from, =1=, 190; looking at ships from, 253; =6=, Statistics. _See_ Cost.

Stillriver Village (Mass.), =5=, 151.

Stone, nations' pride in hammered, =2=, 63.

Stone, the Rev. Nathan, =4=, 55.

Stones, rarity of, on Cape Cod, =4=, 223-225.

Storm, in New York, =6=, 105; on Monadnock, 370.

Stove, disadvantages of cooking, =2=, 280, 281.

Stow (Mass.), =5=, 136.

Stratten, now the Almshouse Farm, =2=, 283; family, homestead of, 284.

Students, poor, Walden addressed to, =2=, 4; their economy, =6=, 58, Sturgeon River, Merrimack or, =1=, 85, 117.

67, 94, 311, 312.

SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES, THE, =5=, 184-204.

"Such near aspects had we," verse, =1=, 253.

"Such water do the gods distil," verse, =1=, 86.

Sudbury (Mass.), =1=, 3, 4, 5, 36, 53; early church of, described by Sudbury River, =1=, 4.

Suet, in Dennis (Mass.), =4=, 27.

Sugar Island, =3=, 101, 183, 194; near Olamon River, 324.

Sugar Maple, The, =5=, 271-278.

Sumach growing by T.'s house, =2=, 126.

Sumner, Horace, lost at sea, =6=, 184.

Suncook, =1=, 87.

Sun-fish, bream, or ruff, the fresh-water, =1=, 24-26.

Sunrise on Hoosac Mountain, =1=, 198. _See_ Morning.

Sunshine, the power of, =4=, 290, 291.

Survey of Walden Pond, =2=, 315-324.

Surveyor of forest paths and across-lot routes, =2=, 20.

Suttle, Mr., of Virginia, =4=, 392.

Sutton (Mass.), =2=, 292.

Swamp, the luxury of standing in a, =1=, 319.

"Sweet cakes," =3=, 12.

Tacitus, translation by T. from, =4=, 452-454.

"Tactics" of Scott, =6=, 356.

Tamias, the steward squirrel, =5=, 198.

Tansy, =1=, 18.

113, 117, 122.

Tarbell, Deacon, =6=, 244.

Tarkiln Hill, New Bedford, =6=, 262, 305.

Tavern, the gods' interest in the, =5=, 153; compared with the church, the, 161, 162.

Taxes, T.'s experience with, =4=, 369, 370; in jail for refusal to pay, 374-381.

Taylor, Jane, =6=, 115.

Tea, varieties of forest, =3=, 227; hemlock, its value, =6=, 326.

Teats, =6=, 223.

Telasinis Lake, =3=, 267.

290, 299.

Temperature, of pond water in spring, =2=, 330.

Temple, defined, =6=, 195; too close, 191.

Tent, description of, =3=, 196, 197.

Tenures, Canadian, =5=, 63.

Tests, our lives tried by a thousand simple, =2=, 11.

"Thank God, who seasons thus the year," verse, =5=, 407.

"That Phaeton of our day," =1=, 103.

Thaw, sand formations due to, =2=, 336; Thor and, 341.

Thaw, The, verse, =5=, 409.

"The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray," verse, =5=, 406.

"The god of day his car rolls up the slopes," verse, =5=, 399.

"The Good how can we trust?" verse, =1=, 298; =6=, 177.

"The needles of the pine," verse, =5=, 133.

"The rabbit leaps," verse, =5=, 410.

"The respectable folks," verse, =1=, 7.

"The river swelleth more and more," verse, =5=, 120.

"The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell," verse, =5=, 165.

"The smothered streams of love, which flow," verse, =1=, 278.

"The waves slowly beat," verse, =1=, 229.

"The western wind came lumbering in," verse, =1=, 180.

"Then idle Time ran gadding by," verse, =1=, 181.

"Then spend an age in whetting thy desire," verse, =1=, 111.

"There is a vale which none hath seen," verse, =1=, 184.

"Therefore a torrent of sadness deep," verse, =1=, 183.

"They," an authority impersonal as the Fates, =2=, 27.

Thieving, practiced only where property is unevenly divided, =2=, 191.

"This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome," verse, =1=, 267.

Thistle, the Canada, =3=, 96.

Thomson, James, quoted, =5=, 249.

Thor and Thaw, =2=, 341.

Thoreau, Cynthia (Dunbar), mother of Henry, =6=, 4, 11, 29, 68, 193, under_ Letters.

Thoreau, Henry David, starts on Concord and Merrimack journey, =1=, 12; ascent of Hoosac Mountain, 189-200; experience with an uncivil mountain man, 214-220; invited to do various sorts of work, 324; begins return voyage, 335; goes to live by Walden Pond, =2=, 3; prefers to talk in the first person singular, 3, 4; beginning in the woods, 45; purchase of Collins's shanty, 47; begins to occupy house, 49; plants beans, 60; earnings and spendings, 65-67; making bread, 68; declines offer of a mat, 74; imaginary purchase of Hollowell farm, 92; situation of house, 95, 126; purpose in going to woods, 100, 101; hoed beans, did not read books, 123; listening to various sounds, 127-142; friendship with Canadian woodchopper, 159-166; devotion to husbandry, 179; earnings and spendings on bean-field, 180, 181; put in jail for not paying taxes, 190; fishing in Walden Pond, 192-195; boiling chowder about 1824, 200; earliest days on Walden Pond, 212, 213; first begins to inhabit house in cold weather, 268; finishes house with plastering, 271; surveys Walden Pond, 315; leaves Walden, Sept. 6, 1847, 351; leaves Concord for Maine, Aug. 31, 1846, =3=, 3; starts "up river" from Bangor, 4; strikes into the wilderness, 15; starts for summit of Ktaadn, 61, 62; begins descent, 72; leaves Boston by steamer for Bangor, Sept. 13, 1853, 93; takes Moosehead Lake steamer for return home, 159; starts on third excursion to Maine Woods, July 20, 1857, 174; reaches farthest northern point, 259; lands at Oldtown, the journey finished, 326; various visits to Cape Cod, =4=, 3; starts for Cape Cod, Oct. 9, 1849, 5; goes on a mackerel cruise, 182; takes leave of Cape Cod, 257; experience with taxes, 368, 370; in jail for unpaid taxes, 374-381; leaves Concord for Canada, Sept. 25, 1850, =5=, 3; traveling outfit of, 31-34; leaves Quebec for Montreal on return trip, 95; leaves Montreal for Boston, 99; total expense of Canada excursion 100, 101; walk from Concord to Wachusett and back, 133-152; observation of a red squirrel, 190, 191; experience with government squash seed, 203; his fame increasing, =6=, vii, 398, 399; his his affection for his family, ix, 33, 34, 68, 98, 99, 118, 119; for 136, 142, 157; French elegance of, x; jesting habit of, x; birth and death, 3; ancestry and early days, 3-7; epochs in his life, 5, 6, 11, 24; advises Helen, 25-31; a Transcendental brother, 32-34; acquaintance with Emerson, 34, 35, 48, 49; with Mrs. Brown, 35-42 (_see_ Letters); with R. F. Fuller, 45 (_see_ Letters); love of music, 41, 45, 46; writes to Emerson, 49 (_see_ Letters); at Emerson's house, S. Wheeler, 58, 59, note; edits "Dial," 59-63; admirers of, 65, 138, studies, 65-67; goes to Staten Island, 68; meets Horace Greeley, Henry James, etc., 68; describes New York, 69-72, 78, 79, 82, etc.; verses on his brother John, 74; describes James, Channing, and Brisbane, 80, 81; and other friends, 82; at W. Emerson's, 85, 86; his pursuits, 84-91; criticises Concord and the "Dial," 92-94; describes immigration in 1843, 96, 109, 110; hears Lucretia Mott, 97; laments Stearns Wheeler, 97, 98; regrets Concord and separation, 99; writes for magazines, 100, 102, 107, 108, 109; mentions Channing, Greeley, James, Longfellow, 101; translates Greek, 102; sees publishers, 105; mentions Webster and C. Dunbar, 105; reads Quarles, 113; criticises Ellery Channing and Lane, 113, 114; Emerson too, 115; likes the Irish, 116; objection to W. H. Channing, 118; hears from Emerson, 120; and Ellery Channing, 121; lives by Walden, 122, 125; hears from Lane, 122-125; sends fish to Agassiz, 125-132; returns to Emerson's house, 132; writes to Sophia, 132 (_see_ Letters); cares for the Emerson family, 135; helps Alcott with the summer-house of Emerson, 136; describes Scientific School, 138; refuses marriage, 138, 139; finds no publisher, 139, 156; his account of Hugh Whelan, 140, 143, 144, 148, 149; hears from Emerson, 142 (_see_ Letters); hears Parker, Whipple, and Hudson at Lyceum, 145; describes a dinner, 147; sends verses, 147; describes the Emerson household, 152, 153; and W. E. Channing, 153; Letters); his mode of writing, 156; meets H. G. O. Blake, 158; their correspondence, 158-383 (_see_ Letters); believed in simplicity, 161; bread, 164-166; on duties, 167; corresponds with Greeley, 169; fathoming character, 169; lives by hand-labor, 170, 171; writes for "Graham" and "Putnam," 169, 172; his debts, 219, note, 221; visits Fire Island, 183; elected to Boston Society of Natural History, 188; lectures in Boston, 190; in Plymouth, Salem, etc., 190-192; satirizes spiritism, 193, 194; will be a scarecrow, 195; his temples, 195, 196; essay on Chastity, 197-209; goes land-surveying, 209; on "doing good," 211; reflects on life, 212-215; differs with G. W. Curtis, 216; moralizes, 217-223; feebleness of, 217, 218, 275; reads Haydon and Layard, 224; gets a new coat, 225; lessons therefrom, 226-228; finds fault with men, 229; paddles up river by night, 230, 231; lectures in visits Nantucket and New Bedford, 240, 245, 247; moralizes to Blake, 241-244; writes to Cholmondeley, 249; to Sanborn, 252, 385; prefers home to city, 248; visits Cape Cod, 254-257; incipient disease, 257; his boat, 258; describes Ricketson, 259; deals with E. Hosmer for an old house, 261, 262; praises Gilpin, 263; visits New Bedford, 265, 283; gathers driftwood, 267-269; meets Mary Emerson, 269; receives books from Cholmondeley, 270, 271; the greatest walker in Concord, 277; idealizes sugar-making, 278; visits Alcott in New Hampshire, 282, 283, 285; invited to teach, 285; fondness for home, 285; the Eagleswood community described, 287-289; meets Walt Whitman, 291; visits Greeley, 291; his morning in Worcester, 292, 293; describes Whitman, 295-297; hears H. W. Beecher, 297; quotes Confucius to Wiley, 299 (_see_ Letters); lands on Clark's Island, 301, note; meets Alcott and Channing in New Bedford, 306, 307; goes to Cape Cod with Channing, 308; analyzes glow-worms for M. Watson, 309 (_see_ Letters); praises Hillside, 328, 329; criticises W. Flagg, 311; in Maine woods, 312, 315, 322-326 (_see_ Letter to Higginson); his camp outfit, 326, 327; habit in touring, 329, 330; visits White Mountains (in 1858), 330-336; goes to Monadnock, 333, 368; finds the arnica in Tuckerman's Ravine, 335; his camp on Mt. Washington, 335, 336; writes on autumn tints, 340; is visited by Cholmondeley in 1858-59, 342; ridicules Boston clubs, 344, 345; criticises H. James, 346; his parable of the mountain ravine, 347, 348; his father dies, 350; returns to hand-labor, 355, 356; praises John Brown, 358; his speech published, with Emerson's, by Redpath, 359; reflections on man and fate, 360-362; invited to John Brown's grave, 363; goes with Channing to Monadnock, 364; speeds Frank Merriam to Canada, 366, 367; explains his silence to Ricketson, 354; gets a Canada lynx, 355; describes life on Monadock, 371, 372; hints for the Prince of Wales, 372; is visited by Blake and Brown, 376; mentions Alcott's success, 377; writes to P. Pillsbury, 378; falls ill and goes to Minnesota, 373, 380-384, 385-391; his last letter from Cholmondeley, 380; describes his illness, 393; sits for his portrait in New Bedford, 394; writes for the "Atlantic Monthly," 395; grows worse, 396; writes his last letter, 399; dies, 400; expedition to Catskills and Berkshires, 406, 407; visited by Greene, 409; self-criticism, 410; lecturing irksome, 411; daguerreotype taken, 411.

Thoreau, Jane (aunt), mentioned, =6=, 120.

289, 342, 349; day-book of, 5; lines to, 87; described by Thoreau, Thoreau, John (grandfather of Henry), =6=, 5, note, 323.

Thoreau, John, brother, lines to, =1=, 2, 12; brings Nathan, a country Thoreau, Maria, =6=, 118.

Thoreau, Philip (great-grandfather of Henry), =6=, 5.

Thorhall, the disappointment of, =4=, 187.

Thorwald, voyage of, =4=, 247, 248.

"Thou dusky spirit of the wood," verse, =5=, 113.

"Thou, indeed, dear swallow," verse, =1=, 240.

"Thou sing'st the affairs of Thebes," verse, =1=, 241.

"Though all the fates should prove unkind," verse, =1=, 151.

Thoughts, sell your clothes and keep your, =2=, 361.

"Thracian colt, why at me," verse, =1=, 243.

Thrasher, brown, =2=, 175.

Three Rivers (Que.), =5=, 21, 93.

Thrush, wood, Indian word for, =3=, 186; =6=, 75.

"Thus, perchance, the Indian hunter," verse, =1=, 247.

Tide and waves, power of, =4=, 288-290.

Tierra del Fuego, =2=, 14.

Timber, =3=, 18; land, best in Maine, 235.

Time, measurement of the world's, =1=, 346; but a stream to fish in, =2=, 109.

Tintinnabulum from without, the noise of contemporaries, =2=, 362.

To a Colt, verse, =1=, 243.

To a Dove, verse, =1=, 241.

To a Stray Fowl, verse, =5=, 411.

To Aristoclides, Victor at the Nemean Games, translation, =5=, 384.

To Asopichus, or Orchomenos, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, To My Brother, verse, =5=, 403.

To the Maiden in the East, verse, =5=,400.

To the Lyre, translation, =5=, 379.

Toil, translation, =5=, 389.

"Tom Bowling," sung by T., =6=, 313.

Tomhegan Stream, =3=, 203.

Tools, men the tools of their, =2=, 41.

Tortoise, mud, =6=, 128.

Tortoise, painted, =6=, 128.

"Trainers" in Concord, =4=, 392.

Translations from Pindar, =5=, 375-392.

Trappers, =5=, 115.

Traps, a find of steel, =3=, 302.

Travelers, good humor of, =4=, 23.

Traveling, the profession of, =1=, 325; outfit, the best, =5=, 31-34.

_See_ Walking.

"Traveller," Boston, =6=, 310.

Traverse, the, =5=, 92.

Treat, Rev. Samuel, =4=, 48-52.

Tree, fall of a, at night, =3=, 115; a dangerous, 221.

Trees, visits to particular, =2=, 223; varieties of, =3=, 22, 116; along the Penobscot, 107, 120; about camp on the Caucomgomoc, 223; along the Umbazookskus, 231; on island in Heron Lake, farthest northern point, 259; on East Branch, 302; on Cape Cod, =4=, 129-131; disappearance of, 254, 255; Canadian, =5=, 48; the suggestions of, 125; the natural planting of, 186-202; a town's need of, 272-278; for seasons, 276. _See_ Leaves, Woods, and under names of species.

Tree-tops, a walk over, =3=, 67; appearance of various, 121; things seen and found on, =5=, 245, 246.

Trinity, the, =1=, 70.

Trout, true and cousin, =3=, 59.

Trout Stream, =3=, 235, 269; Indian name for, 295.

357.

Trust, =6=, 56.

Truth, contact with, =1=, 310; to be preferred to all things, =2=, 364.

"Truth along with ye," =6=, 246.

"Turning the silver," verse, =1=, 240.

Turkey, the country, =6=, 147, 175; the fowl, 147.

Turpentine-makers, Indian capture of, =1=, 174.

Turtles, land and sea, =4=, 202. _See_ Tortoise.

Turtle, the snapping, =5=, 124.

Turtle-dove, long ago lost hound, bay horse, and, =2=, 18, 19.

Tyndale, Mrs., =6=, 298.

Umbagog Lake, =6=, 321.

=6=, 325.

Unappropriated Land, the, =1=, 334.

Uncivil mountain farmer, an, =1=, 212-220.

Union Canal, the, =1=, 245.

"Union Magazine," =6=, 170.

Universalist Church, =6=, 52.

"Upon the lofty elm tree sprays," verse, =5=, 112.

Usnea lichen, Indian word for, =3=, 186.

Val Cartier (Que.), =5=, 89.

Vandalic verses, =6=, 39.

Varennes, the church of, =5=, 97, 98.

Varro, Marcus Terentius, quoted, =1=, 382; =2=, 183.

Vedas, the, quoted, =2=, 99, 240; and Zendavestas, 115.

"Veeshnoo Sarma," quoted, =4=, 303.

Vegetable-made bones, oxen with, =2=, 10.

Vegetables in the oysterman's garden, =4=, 100.

Vegetation, the type of all growth, =5=, 128.

Vergennes (Vt.), =5=, 7.

Vessels seen from Cape Cod, =4=, 105, 106, 118, 120-123.

Vestry, of church, =6=, 302, note, 322, 359.

View, the point of, =1=, 372.

VILLAGE, THE, =2=, 185-191.

Village, should play part of a nobleman as patron of art, =2=, 121, 122; a great news-room, 185; running the gantlet in the, 186; a Virginia Road, =6=, 4, 6, note.

Virid Lake as a name for White Pond, =2=, 219.

Vishnu Purana, the, quoted, =2=, 298; =6=, 300.

Von Hammer, =6=, 61.

Voyageurs, Canadian, =3=, 6.

Wachusett Mountain, =1=, 169, 173; a view of, =5=, 138; range, the, 139; ascent of, 142; birds or vegetation on summit of, 143; night on, Wagon journey to White Mountains, =6=, 330, 334.

Walden Pond, house on the shore of, =2=, 3; purpose in living by, to transact private business, 21; advantages of, as a place of business, 23; March, 1845, went to woods by, 45; of their own natures, fishing in the, 145; no more lonely than, 152; old settler who dug, 152; bottomless as, 166; scenery of, 195-216; origin of paving of, 202; temperature of water in, 203, 204; animals in, 204-206; purity of, 214; fishing alone detains citizens at, 235; ducks on, 262; first ice on, 272; dates of first freezing over, 275; 291; bare of snow, 299; fox on thin ice of, 306; pickerel of, 314; surveying and sounding, 315-324; cutting ice on, 323-329; breaking up of ice in, 329-334; =6=, Walden road, snow in, =2=, 294.

Walden vale, giving notice, by smoke, to inhabitants of, 279; making amends for silence to, 295.

Walden Woods, geese alighting in, =2=, 274; Cato Ingraham living in, 283; Zilpha living in, 283; Hugh Quoil living in, 288; owl's hooting Waldenses, pickerel, =2=, 315.

WALK TO WACHUSETT, A, =5=, 133-152.

Walks, not on beaten paths, =5=, 213, 214; the direction of, 216-219; Walls, Quebec and other, =5=, 74.

Walton of Concord River, the, =1=, 22.

Wamesit, =1=, 82.

"Wanderer, The," =6=, 328, note, 365, note.

"Warping up," =3=, 57.

Washing in a lake, =3=, 249.

Wasps, visits from, =2=, 265.

Wassataquoik River, the, =3=, 312.

Water, colors of, =2=, 195-197; transparency of, 197-199; Cape Cod, =4=, 225.

Watson, Edward, =6=, 301, note, 328, note.

Watson, Mrs. Mary, =6=, 43, 329.

Waves on the shore, =4=, 155-158.

Wawatam, the friendship of, =1=, 291.

"We pronounce thee happy, Cicada," verse, =5=, 108.

"We see the _planet_ fall," verse, =1=, 390.

Webb, Rev. Benjamin, =4=, 54, 55.

Webb's Island, the lost, =4=, 152.

Webster, Daniel, Joe Polis's call upon, =3=, 279; quoted, =4=, 125; the power of, 384, 385; quoted, 385; and the Fugitive Slave Law, 395; Webster Pond, =3=, 270, 273; Indian name for, 273.

299, 300.

Weeds, destruction of various, =2=, 178.

"Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A," =6=, 139, 336, note, "Welcome, Englishmen!" =2=, 170.

Weld, Mrs. (Grimké), =6=, 283.

Well Meadow, =2=, 307.

Wellfleet (Mass.), oysters, =4=, 82; Bellamy wrecked off, 160; a good headquarters for visitors to the Cape, 271.

WELLFLEET OYSTERMAN, THE, =4=, 79-102.

WENDELL PHILLIPS BEFORE THE CONCORD LYCEUM, =4=, 311-315.

West, walking towards the, =5=, 217-220; general tendency towards the, 219-224; T. would go to, =6=, 20, 21; a friend in, 36; immigrants to, West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination, =2=, 8.

Westford (Mass.), =1=, 113.

Westmoreland, etymology of, =5=, 6.

Weston (Mass.), =2=, 308.

Whales, in the St. Lawrence, =5=, 91.

"What dost thou wish me to do to thee?" verse, =1=, 243.

"What's the railroad to me?" verse, =2=, 135, 136.

"Whate'er we leave to God, God does," verse, =5=, 396.

103.

"When descends on the Atlantic," Longfellow, quoted, =4=, 69.

"When life contracts into a vulgar span," verse, =5=, 404.

"When the world grows old by the chimney-side," verse, =5=, 417.

"When Winter fringes every bough," verse, =5=, 176.

"Where gleaming fields of haze," verse, =1=, 234.

WHERE I LIVED, AND WHAT I LIVED FOR, =2=, 90-109.

"Where they once dug for money," verse, =5=, 214.

"Where'er thou sail'st who sailed with me," verse, =1=, 2.

Whetstone Falls, =3=, 313.

Whim, centrifugal force of, =6=, 154.

Whipple, Edwin Percy, =6=, 145.

347, 348, 370.

Whitehead, near Cohasset, =4=, 10.

Whitehead Island, =3=, 94.

Whitman, Walt, =6=, 272, note; seen by T., 290, 291, genius of, 295, 296; brag of, 297; seen by Alcott, 298.

Whitney, Peter, quoted, =5=, 312.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, =6=, 51, note.

"Who equaleth the coward's haste," verse, =5=, 417.

"Who sleeps by day and walks by night," verse, =1=, 41.

"Whoa," the crying of, to mankind, =5=, 235.

Wigwam, in Indian gazettes, symbol of a day's march, =2=, 30.

175.

WILD APPLES, =5=, 290-322.

Wilderness, the need of, =1=, 179.

Wildness, cultivation and, =1=, 55; the necessity of, =5=, 224-236; in literature, 230-233; in domestic animals, 234-236.

Willow, the narrow-leaved, =1=, 18; the water, 43.

Willow, golden leaves, =5=, 266.

Wind, power of the, =4=, 286-288.

Windmills, Cape Cod, =4=, 34, 35.

Windows in Cape Cod houses, =4=, 79, 80.

Winslow, Edward, quoted, =2=, 158.

Winter, warmth in, =5=, 167, 168; the woods in, 168, 169; nature a _hortus siccus_ in, 179; as represented in the almanac, 182; ignored in Hebrew revelation, 183; evening, 183.

WINTER ANIMALS, =2=, 299-311.

Winter Scene, A, verse, =5=, 410.

WINTER VISITORS, FORMER INHABITANTS AND, =2=, 282-298.

"Winter Walk, A," the essay, =6=, 94.

Winthrop, Gov., quoted, =4=, 236; his Concord house, =6=, 261, note.

Wise, Henry A., quoted, =4=, 428.

Wise man, the, =4=, 462, 463.

Wisdom, of the ancients, =6=, 114, 299, 300; of the Indian, 311, 316.

"With frontier strength ye stand your ground," verse, =1=, 170; =5=, 133.

"Within the circuit of this plodding life," verse, =5=, 103.

Wolfe and Montcalm, monument to, =5=, 73.

Wolff, Joseph, quoted, =1=, 60, 131.

Woman, her quarrel with man, =6=, 198; her beauty, 198, 199; a merely sentimental, 200.

Women, pinched up, =4=, 24; Canadian, =5=, 34.

Wood, gathering, =2=, 275; relative value of in different places, 277.

Wood, William, quoted, =4=, 85.

Wood End, wreck at, =4=, 259, 260.

Woodman, hut and work of a, =5=, 172, 173. _See_ Woodchopper.

Woods, turning face to the, =2=, 21; wetness of the, =3=, 22; characteristics of Maine, and uses of all, 167-173; destruction of the, 252-254; in winter, the, =5=, 168, 169. _See_ Trees.

"Woof of the sun, ethereal gauze," verse, =1=, 229.

292, 308.

Work, quiet, =1=, 110; exaggerated importance of our, =2=, 12; our excess of, =4=, 456.

World, a cow that is hard to milk, =6=, 135; must look out, 146; noble to stand aside from, 159; idly complaining, 196; its way, 209; and Atlas, 243; no match for a thought, 357; pitch it into a hollow place, sit down and eat your luncheon, 362; one world at a time, 379.

Wreck, of the Franklin, =4=, 73; of Bellamy, the pirate, 160, 161; of the British ship of war Somerset, 162; story of a man from a, 259, 260.

Wrecks, Truro, =4=, 159; the consequences of, 163, 164.

Writing, grace and power in, =1=, 108-111; correct, =6=, 94, 156; Wyman, the potter, =2=, 288.

Wyman trial, the, =6=, 104.

YANKEE IN CANADA, A, =5=, 1-101.

"Yankee in Canada, A," publication of, =6=, 172, 215.

Yankees, how first called, =1=, 53.

Yellow house, =6=, 7.

Yellow Medicine, river, =6=, 391.

Yellow Pine Lake, =2=, 219.

Yoga (Hindoo observance), =6=, 175.

Yogi, =6=, 175.

"Yorrick," the, =5=, 1, 12, note.

Young, Arthur, =2=, 61.

Youth, and age, =2=, 9.

"Youth of the Poet and Painter," Channing's, =6=, 94, 113, note, 117.

Zendavestas, Vedas and, =2=, 115.

Zilpha, a colored woman, =2=, 283.

Zoroaster, let the hired man commune with, =2=, 120.

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