the Thoreau Log.
2 September 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Ledum Swamp . . .

  The farmer is obliged to hide his melon-patch in the midst of his coat or potatoes, far away. I sometimes stutnhlc on it as I tern going across lots. I see one today where the watermelons are intermixed with carrots in a carrot-bed, and so concealed by the general resemblence of leaf, etc., at a little distance . . .

(Journal, 12:312-313)

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