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The Hero—At Midnight's Hour—Wordsworth—Dying Young—The
Present Time—Exaggeration—Carlyle's Discovery that
he was not a Jackass—Longevity—Life and Death of Hugh
Quoil, a Waterloo Soldier—Quoil's Deserted House—Old
Clothes—Former Inhabitants of the Walden Woods—The
Loon on Walden Pond—Ducks and Geese—The Pack of
Hounds—An Unsuccessful Village—Concord Games—Animal
Neighbors—Carlyle's Use of the Printer's Art—Northern
Slavery—Brister and Zilpha—Making Bread—Emerson and
Alcott—A Rabbit—A Town Officer.