According to “Economy” from Walden, what happened before the framing of Thoreau’s house was completed? He bought the property he planned to live on.
He hiked through the woods studying nature.
He investigated the history of the land.
He bought a cabin to break down for lumber.

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more: reminiscences, 1815-1897. all that day and far into the night i pondered the problem of boyhood. i thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. so i decided to study greek and learn to manage a horse. which question would best the reader understand stanton's viewpoint in this excerpt?