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apter 8
The Village
 fter hoeing£¬or perhaps reading and writing£¬in
 the  forenoon£¬  I  usually  bathed  again  in  the
 pond£¬SWimming across one ofits coves for a
stiht£¬and washed the dust of labor from my person£¬or
smoothed OUt the 1ast wrinkle which studV had made£¬
and for the anernoon was abs01utely free£®Every day or
two I str011ed to the viilage to hear some of t'he gOSSip
which is incessantly going on there£¬ciFCalating either
from mouth to mouth,or from newspaper to newspaper
 and which£¬taken in homoeopathic doses£¬was really as re—
freshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping
 of froffs£®As 1 walked in the WOOds to see the birds and
 souirrels£¬SO 1 walked in the viilage to see the men and
 bovs£»instead of the wind among the pines I heard the
 carts rattle£®In one direction from mV house l£ºhere was a
 COlonv of muskrats in the rivet meadows;under the grove
 of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a Vil—
lage of busy men,as curious to me as if they had been
 prairie—dogs£¬each sitting at the mouth of its burrow£¬or
 runnѪg over to a neighbor's to gOSSip£®1 went there fre-
cluentlV to observe their habits£®The village appeared to
   
    me a great news room£»and on one side£¬to suppOrt it£¬as
    once at Redding&Company’s on State Street£¬they kept
    nuts and raisins£¬or salt and meal and other groceries£®

Some have SUCh a vast appetite for the former commodity,
that is£¬the news,and SUCh SOURd digestiVe orgars,that
they can sit forever in public avenues without stirring
and let it simmer and whisper through them 1ike the
Etesian winds£¬or as if inhaling ether,it only PrOducing
numbness and insensibility to pain—otherwise it WOUld
often be painfulto bear—without affecting the consciOUS—
ness£®I hardly ever failed£¬when I rambled throu gh the Vil—
lage£¬to see a row of SUCh worthies,eÈÃher sitting on a lad—
der sunning themselVes£¬with their bodies inclined for-
ward and their eyes glarcing along the 1ine this way and
that£¬from time to time,with a V01uptuOUS expression,or
else leaning against a bam with their hands in their pock-
ets,1ike caryatides,as if to proP it up£®They£¬beѪg com—
monly OUt of doors,heard whatever was in the wind£®
These are the coarsest mills£¬in which aU gossÖÐis first
 rudely digested or cracked up before it is emptied into
finer and more delicate hoppers wit¶ùn doors£®I observed
that the Vitals of the viilage were the grocerY,the bar-
room,the post-office,and the bark£»and£¬as a necessary
 part of the mac¶ùnerY,they kept a bell£¬a big gunI and a
fire-eRgine,at convenient places£»and the houses were so
 arranged as to make the most of mankind£¬in lares and
fronting one another,so that every traveller had to run the
 gauntlet£¬and every man,woman,and child might get a
1ick at him£®Of course,those who were stationed nearest
to the head of the line,where they conld most see and be
 seen,and have the first blOW at him£¬paid the highest
 prices for their places£»and the few straggling inhabitants
in the outskirts£¬where long gapsѪthe line began to oc—
cur,and the traveUer COUld get over walls or tum aside in—
to cow-paths£¬and so escape£¬paid a Very slight grOURd or
 windOW tax£®Signs were hung ont on aU sides to allure
him;some tO catch him by the appetite£¬as me tavern and

Victualling cellar£»some by the fancy£¬as the dry goods
store and the jeweller's£»and others by the hair or the feet
Or the skirts£¬as the barber£¬the shoemaker£¬Or the tailOr£®
Besides£¬there was a still more terrible standing invitation
to call at every one of these house and company expect—
ed about these times£®For the most part I escaped wonder—
fully from these dangers£¬either by proceeding at once
b01dly and withOUt deliberation to the goaL as is recom—
mended tO those who run the gauntlet£¬or by keeping my
thoughts on high things£¬1ike Orpheus£¬  who£¬  “loudly
singing the praises of the gods to his 1yre£¬drowned the
VOices of the Sirens£¬and kept OUt of danger£®”Sometimes I
bolted SUddenly£¬and nobody COUld te¢òmy whereabouts£¬
fOr I did not stand much about gracefuLness,and never
hesitated at a gap in a fence£®1 was even aCCUStomed to
make an irmption into some hoases£¬where 1 was weU
 entertained£¬and after 1eamѪg the kernels and very last
 sieveful Of news—what had subsided£¬the prosPects of
 war and peace£¬and whether the world was 1ikelV tO hold
together mHCh longer—1 was let out through the rear
 avenues£¬and sO escaped to the woods again£®
    It was very pleasant£¬when I stayed 1ate in town£¬tO
1aunch myself into the night,especiaUy if it was dark and
tempestuous£¬and set sail from some bright viilage parlOr
 or lecture room£¬with a bag of rye or Indian meal upon my
 shoulder£¬for my snug harbor in the woods£¬having made
 aU tight without and withdFawn under hatches with a
 merry crew ofthoughts£¬leaving only my OUter man at the
 helmi or even tying uP the helm when it was plain sailing£®
I had many a genial thOUght by the cabin fire“as I sailed£®”
1 was never cast away nor distressed in any weather£¬
thOugh I encountered some severe storms£®It is darker in
the WOOds£¬evenѪcommon¶ùghts£¬than most sappose£®