There were plenty of chestnuts in the woods, and the walnut, or pig-nut, also abounded; so that berrying and nutting were favorite pastimes.
When I was a small boy a party of us went down to Walden woods, afterward so famous as the residence of Henry Thoreau.

There was an old fellow named Tommy Wyman, who lived in a hut near the pond, who did not like the idea of having the huckleberry- fields near him invaded by the boys.

He told us it was not safe for us to go there.

He said there was an Indian doctor in the woods who caught small boys and cut out their livers to make medicine.

We were terribly frightened, and all went home in a hurry.
When we got near the town, we met old John Thoreau, with his son Henry, and I remember his amusement when I told him the story.