<pb id='056.png' /> R568978. 1947 in Thoreau's Walden in photographs; a photographic register, adapted from Thoreau's Walden.

I reached Saffron Walden at 4 p.m., notwithstanding my involuntary walk of six extra miles in the morning.

Now the trunks of trees on the bottom, and the old log canoe, and the dark surrounding woods, are gone, and the villagers, who scarcely know where it lies, instead of going to the pond to bathe or drink, are thinking to bring its water, which should be as sacred as the Ganges at least, to the village in a pipe, to wash their dishes with!to earn their Walden by the turning of a cock or drawing of a plug!

But he did not write Walden for food or money; he wrote it primarily because he liked to write, and for the benefit of mankind.