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Railroad & Telegraph at Walden Pond | |
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"The Fitchburg Railroad
touches the pond about a hundred rods
[550 yards] south of where I dwell.
I usually go to the village along its
causeway, and am, as it were, related
to society
by this link." |
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"The whistle of the locomotive penetrates
my woods summer and winter, sounding like the
scream of a hawk sailing over some farmer's
yard.... |
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