...eeks in the year he could meet all the expenses of living. He haunted the woods and pastures, explored rivers and ponds, built the famous hut on Emerson's wood-lot with the famous axe borrowed from Alcott , was put in jail for refusal to pay his polltax, and, to sum up much in little, signed off from social obligations. I, Henry D. Thoreau, have signed off, and do not hold myself responsible to your...