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Citizens of Concord in May, 1862, hearing that Henry Thoreau, the eccentric bachelor, had just died of consumption in his mother's house on Main Street, in his forty-fifth year, would have smiled cannily at the notion that after fifty years their townsman's literary works would be published in a sumptuous twenty-volume edition, and that critics in his own country and in Europe would rank him with Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Well, `shiver my timbers! as you sailors are supposed to remark," exclaimed Earle in tones of ineffable disgust. "If that doesn't beat the band! Oh, Dick Cavendish and Wilfrid Earle, you you twenty-volume unabridged fools, why on earth couldn't you have waited another two or three seconds before shootin' and so have made sure of getting the brute?
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