Thoreau writes in his journal:
2 P.M.—First notice the ring of the toad, as I am crossing the Common in front of the meeting-house . . . Bubo the Double-chinned inflates his throat. Attend to his message. Take off your greatcoats, swains! and prepare for the summer campaign. Hop a few paces further . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal on May 2 regarding his activities with Thoreau on May 1:
Walk yesterday, first day of May, with Henry Thoreau to Goose Pond, and to ‘Red Chokeberry Lane’ . . . From a white birch, Henry cut a strip of bark to show how a naturalist would make the best box to carry a plant or other specimen requiring care, and thought the woodman would make a better hat of birch-bark than of felt,—hat, with cockade of lichens thrown in. I told him the Birkebeiners of the Heimskringla had been before him. We will make a book on walking, ’tis certain, and have easy lessons for beginners. “Walking in ten Lessons.”
