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I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no Purposes and some, who have large families, how many poor children Others have beenĬurious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable

Not feel lonesome if I was not afraid and the like.

Some have asked what I got to eat if I did My mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though they do notĪppear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, Very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if

At present I am a sojourner in civilized life When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I livedĪlone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I hadīuilt myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts,Īnd earned my living by the labor of my hands only.