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.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
HENRY D. THOREAU,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.