“Tt ts as when a family, your neighbors, return to an empty house 
after a long absence, and you hear the cheerful bum of voices and the 
laughter of children, and see the smoke from the kitchen fire. The doors 
are thrown open, the children go screaming through the ball. So the 
| flicker dashes through the aisles of the grove, throws up a window here 
and cackles out of tt, and then there, atring the house. It is as good 
as a house-warming to all Nature.” 
THOREAU. 
