Excerpt from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2: 1850 September 15, 1851 Disease the Rule of Existence Finding one's Faculties Telegraphs Moose-lipped Words Cato's De Re Rustica The Horse and Man Health and Disease The Tele graph Harp Walking in England A Walk to Boon's Pond in Stow The Farmer and His Oxen Tempe and Arcadia Footpaths for Poets Writing on Many Subjects Dammed Streams The Dog of the Woods J. J. G. Wilkinson Fastidiousness A Lake by Moonlight A Formalist The Fullness of Life Creatures of Institutions Moments of Inspiration Gladness A September Evening Singing heard at Night Moonlight on the River Fair Haven by Moonlight Northern Lights Soaring Hawks The Grass and the Year The Sky at Night A factory-bell Sunrise The Color of the Poke The Stone-mason's Craft Moral Effort Benvenuto Cellini An Endymion Sleep The Mountains in the Horizon The Telegraph Harp Perambulating the Bounds A pigeon-place An Elusive Scent The Cross-leaved Polygala. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.