Excerpt from Walden's Miscellaneous Poems: Which the Author Desires to Dedicate to the Cause of Education and Humanity His master learned to value his services in keeping things in order about the place, making little repairs, etc., so that he was never put to hard work. From the failure of his owners, he changed hands several times. His mother died when he was about eight years old. When about eighteen years old he was engaged at a gold mine in driving oxen. The owner was a very passionate man, and was so angry one day that he was about to strike an OK to the ground with a mattock. Walden remonstrated, saying. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.