id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt thoreau-walden_014-1854 thoreau thoreau-walden_014-1854 1854 .txt text/plain 5760 177 69 There are enough fagots and waste wood of all kinds in the forests of most of our towns to support many fires, but which at present warm none, and, some think, hinder the growth of the young wood. One day, however, as I was splitting wood, I thought that I would just look in at the window and see if the house was not on fire; it was the only time I remember to have been particularly anxious on this score; so I looked and saw that a spark had caught my bed, and I went in and extinguished it when it had burned a place as big as my hand. cache/thoreau-walden_014-1854.txt txt/thoreau-walden_014-1854.txt