Walden Chapter 14: Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors

Walden Chapter 14: Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors

1. Thoreau amuses himself when he is alone by imagining people who he thinks used to live in the woods.

   • He never knew these people, but he mentions their names and their backgrounds.

2. Thoreau is alone a lot in the winter because he rarely gets visitors.

   • Once he returned home and was surprised to find the smell of someone's pipe in his house and logs in the fire.
   • However, he receives visits from a farmer, a poet, and a religious man all of which he enjoys the company of very much.
     • He suspects one of them was in his house.