. Daniel Ricketson and his friends; letters, poems, sketches, life, simpli-city, humanity, sincerity, &c., &c., from Cowperand other English poets, and similar extracts fromnewspapers. There were also two or three adver-tisements of cattle-show exhibitions, and the warn-ing not to kill birds contrary to laws, he being oneof the subscribers notified to enforce the act, anadvertisement of a steamboat on Lake Winnepi-seogee, &c., cards of his business friends. The sizeof different brains, from Halls Journal of Health,and Take the world Easy. A sheet of blottingpaper tacked up, and of Chines
. Daniel Ricketson and his friends; letters, poems, sketches, life, simpli-city, humanity, sincerity, &c., &c., from Cowperand other English poets, and similar extracts fromnewspapers. There were also two or three adver-tisements of cattle-show exhibitions, and the warn-ing not to kill birds contrary to laws, he being oneof the subscribers notified to enforce the act, anadvertisement of a steamboat on Lake Winnepi-seogee, &c., cards of his business friends. The sizeof different brains, from Halls Journal of Health,and Take the world Easy. A sheet of blottingpaper tacked up, and of Chinese characters from atea-chest. Also a few small pictures and pencilsketches, the latter commonly caricatures of his vis-itors or friends, as The Trojan (Channing) andVan Beest; I take the most notice of these par-ticulars because his peculiarities are so conmionlyunaffected. He has long been accustomed to putthese scraps on his walls, and has a basket fullsomewhere saved from the old Shanty, though therewere some quotations which had no right there. I. 2; oo H< HIS in WKH EXTRACTS FROM THOREAUS JOURNAL 353 found all his peculiarities faithfully expressed, hishumanity, his fear of death, love of retirement, sim-plicity, &c. The more characteristic books wereBradleys Husbandry, Drakes Indians, BarbersHist. Coll., Zimmermann on Solitude, BigelowsPlants of Boston, & Farmers Register of the firstSettlers of New England, Marshalls Gardening,Vicks Gardener, John Woolman, The Modern HorseDoctor, Downings Fruits, & The Farmers Library,Walden, Dymonds Essays, Jobb Scotts Journal,Mortons Memorial, Baileys Dictionary, DowningsLandscape Gardening, etc., The Task, Nuttalls Or-nithology, Morses Gazetteer, The Domestic Practiceof Hydropathy, John Buncle, Dwights Travels,Virgil, Youngs Night Thoughts, History of Ply-mouth, and other Shanty books. There was an old gun, hardly safe to fire, said tobe loaded with an inextractable charge, and also anold sword over the door; also a tin sign,
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