Week 3 Journal Assignment |
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"After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the dust of labor from my person, or smoothed out the last wrinkle which study had made, and for the afternoon was absolutely free. Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there. . . As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys. . . The village appeared to me a great news room. . . I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire engine, at convenient places...."
– Walden, Thoreau
Refer back to the general requirements for all journals.