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1After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one
2of its coves for a stint, and washed the dust of labor from my person, or smoothed out the last wrinkle which study had
3made, and for the afternoon was absolutely free. Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip
4which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which,
5taken in homœopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. As I
6walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the
7wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the
8river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me
9as if they had been prairie dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I
10went there frequently to observe their habits. The village appeared to me a great news room; and on one side, to support
11it, as once at Redding & Company's on State Street, they kept nuts and raisins, or salt and meal and other groceries.
12Some have such a vast appetite for the former commodity, that is, the news, and such sound digestive organs, that they
13can sit forever in public avenues without stirring, and let it simmer and whisper through them like the Etesian winds,
14or as if inhaling ether, it only producing numbness and insensibility to pain,--otherwise it would often be painful to
15hear,--without affecting the consciousness. I hardly ever failed, when I rambled through the village, to see a row of
16such worthies, either sitting on a ladder sunning themselves, with their bodies inclined forward and their eyes glancing
17along the line this way and that, from time to time, with a voluptuous expression, or else leaning against a barn with
18their hands in their pockets, like caryatides, as if to prop it up. They, being commonly out of doors, heard whatever
19was in the wind. These are the coarsest mills, in which all gossip is first rudely digested or cracked up before it is
20emptied into finer and more delicate hoppers within doors. I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery,
21the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and
22a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and
23fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gantlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick
24at him. Of course, those who were stationed nearest to the head of the line, where they could most see and be seen, and
25have the first blow at him, paid the highest prices for their places; and the few straggling inhabitants in the
26outskirts, where long gaps in the line began to occur, and the traveller could get over walls or turn aside into cow
27paths, and so escape, paid a very slight ground or window tax. Signs were hung out on all sides to allure him; some to
28catch him by the appetite, as the tavern and victualling cellar; some by the fancy, as the dry goods store and the
29jeweller's; and others by the hair or the feet or the skirts, as the barber, the shoemaker, or the tailor. Besides,
30there was a still more terrible standing invitation to call at every one of these houses, and company expected about
31these times. For the most part I escaped wonderfully from these dangers, either by proceeding at once boldly and without
32deliberation to the goal, as is recommended to those who run the gantlet, or by keeping my thoughts on high things, like
33Orpheus, who, "loudly singing the praises of the gods to his lyre, drowned the voices of the Sirens, and kept out of
34danger." Sometimes I bolted suddenly, and nobody could tell my whereabouts, for I did not stand much about gracefulness,
35and never hesitated at a gap in a fence. I was even accustomed to make an irruption into some houses, where I was well
36entertained, and after learning the kernels and very last sieve-ful of news, what had subsided, the prospects of war and
37peace, and whether the world was likely to hold together much longer, I was let out through the rear avenues, and so
38escaped to the woods again.
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