the Thoreau Log.
21 February 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Am surprised to see this afternoon a boy collecting red maple sap from some trees behind George Hubbard’s. It runs freely. The earliest sap I made to flow last year was March 14th. It must be owing to the warm weather we have had.

  The river for some days has been open and its sap visibly flowing, like the maple.

(Journal, 9:275)

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