In this episode, Thoreau tries to determine from several Native Americans in a Maine camp what some of the Abenaki place names mean; then, in ch. 14 of A Country Doctor, we move to Dunport and make the acquaintance of Nan's aunt, Miss Anna Prince.

Episode 25's substantial reading from Thoreau's "Chesuncook" includes some of the most moving prose of the essay as Thoreau moralizes about hunting and poetry; he also expresses Transcendentalist enthusiasm for "the living spirit of the [pine] tree." The episode concludes with Jewett's thirteenth chapter of A Country Doctor, "A Straight Course."

Episode 24 (2.12) includes only a short passage from Thoreau's second essay in The Maine Woods, "Chesuncook," to leave time for the whole of Jewett's long chapter 12.

Episode 23 offers a long passage from Thoreau's "Chesuncook," much of it concerning the tracking and hunting of moose, and the short chapter 11 of Jewett's A Country Doctor.

Episode 22 includes only a short passage of Thoreau's second essay from The Maine Woods so that the long tenth chapter of Jewett's A Country Doctor may be shared in full.

With Episode 21 (2.9), we begin the second of the three essays comprising The Maine Woods, "Chesuncook," in which Thoreau navigates from Boston to Bangor, then travels by wagon to the foot of Moosehead Lake, then by canoe to its head, before porting to the Penobscot River. The episode concludes with the second half of Jewett's long ninth chapter, "At Dr. Leslie's."

Episode 20 concludes the first of The Maine Woods's three essays, "Ktaadn," then begins the 9th chapter of Jewett's A Country Doctor.

Episode 19 takes us up Mount Katahdin with Henry David Thoreau, whose essay "Ktaadn" delivers its rhetorical climax in today's reading. By extending the episode beyond its usual length, we make time for two chapters of Jewett's A Country Doctor.