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Travellers heard talking at
Night—Potato-Fields—Hubbard’s Bridge—Moonlight—Sam, the
Jailer—Intimations of the Night—Shadows of Trees—Perez
Blood’s Telescope—The Chastity of the Mind—A Rye-Field—A
Visit to the Cambridge Observatory—Charles River—A
Gorgeous Sunset—The Forms of Clouds—A Moonlight Walk—The
Light of the Moon—Waterfalls within Us—Another Moonlight
Walk—Eating a Raw Turnip—The Experience of Ecstasy—The
Song Sparrow—Berry-Picking—Signs of the Season—The First
of the Dog-Days—Pitch Pine Woods—The Ideal Self—The Life
of the Spirit—A Proposed Occupation—The River’s Crop—An
Old Untravelled Road—A Black Veil—A Human Footprint—The
Gentleman—An Immortal Melody—Wild Pigeons—Mirabeau
as a Highwayman—Ambrosial Fog—Maimed Geniuses—The
Charm of the French Names in Canada—Walking and
Writing—Swallows—The Moods of the Mind—Drought—A South
Shore Excursion—On the Hingham Boat—Hull—The Cohasset
Shore—Daniel Webster’s Farm—A Mackerel Schooner—Clark’s
Island—A Boat Swamped—Digging Clams—The Rut of the
Sea—Seals in Plymouth Harbor—Shells and Seaweeds—The
Sailboat—Webster’s Nearest Neighbor—A Hard Man—Plymouth.