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WALDEN 
OR, 
LIFE IN THE WOODS. 
By HENRY D. THOREAU, 
AUTHOR OF “A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS.” 
I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the 
morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. — Page 92. 
BOSTON: 
TICKNOR AND FIELDS. 
M DCCC LIV. 
