the Thoreau Log.
12 August 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  When I came down-stairs this morning, it raining hard and steadily, I found an Irishman sitting with his coat on his arm in the kitchen, waiting to see me. He wanted to inquire what I thought the weather would be to-day! I sometimes ask my aunt, and she consults the almanac. So we shirk the responsibility.

  P.M.—To the Miles blueberry swamp and White Pond . . .

(Journal, 11:94-98)

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