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I lay thoughtful, querying Was I a rich man, or a poor man? Was I a

ruler, or a private man, or a la that all my life I had, like most of us all,

been more or less a lame man and a private reat day forAnd here noas I, blessed by the printed wisdoe and philosophy, and yetYouth I lay flat, rass, and looked

up at the leaves I felt eless

scheme, and ell content It has always been is of life--such as the a of

money--when I am alone in the woods I pondered now on the wisdom of

my teachers, Epictetus, Jimmy, John and the author of the Book of

Genesis

I arose at last with less of melancholy and more of resolve than I had

known for years The world swam true on its axis all around me; and I,

who all my life had been in soe feeling of poise and certainty No, I said to

ue no more with Helena And ned me the double rôle of pirate and boy, I was

resolved to act both "naturally and nobly"

I could not have called either of my associates less than natural and

noble in his part, viewed as I found theht theloo no speech to the laboring clammers, who,