 ... by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here ! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and...  The New England Magazine - Page 4281913Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1880 - 444 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon,...succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitchpines, into a larger wood about the swamp. There, in a very secluded and shaded spot, under a... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 516 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon, after planting, and ate my Innch, and read a little by a spring which was the source of a swamp and of a brook, oozing from under... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon,...source of a swamp and of a brook, oozing from under Blister's Hill, half a mile from my field. The approach to this was through a succession of descending... | |
 | American prose literature - 1891 - 432 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where "my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon,...source of a swamp and of a brook, oozing from under Blister's Hill, half a mile from my field. The approach to this was through a succession of descending... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1893 - 550 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon,...succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch-pines, into a larger wood about the swamp. There, in a very secluded and shaded spot, under a... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon,...succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch-pines, into a larger wood about the swamp. There, in a very secluded and shaded spot, under a... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1897 - 318 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon,...succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch-pines, into a larger wood about the swamp. There, in a very secluded and shaded spot, under a... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...might, d yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him JQTO* G. NOONDAY REST. (From "Walden.") eOMMONLY 1 rested an hour or two in the shade at noon, after...read a little by a spring which was the source of a spring and a brook, oozing from under Brister's Hill, half a mile from my field. The approach to this... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 428 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon,...source of a swamp and of a brook, oozing from under Blister's Hill, half a mile from my field. The approach to this was through a succession of descending... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - 1907 - 460 pages
...raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still hear their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon,...spring, which was the source of a swamp and of a brook. The approach to this was through a succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch pines,... | |
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