Farther down the hill, on the left, on the old road in the woods, are … — Walden

Walden — Henry David Thoreau

Farther down the hill, on the left, on the old road in the woods, are marks of some homestead of the Stratton family; whose orchard once covered all the slope of Brister's Hill, but was long since killed out by pitch pines, excepting a few stumps, whose old roots furnish still the wild stocks of many a thrifty village tree.

Place: ¶447
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