![]() ![]() I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some of these questions in this book. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained. Some have asked what I got to eat if I did not feel lonesome if I was not afraid and the like. Which some would call impertinent, though they do not appear to me at all impertinent, considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life. At present, I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I lived there for two years and two months. In Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond. ![]()
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