the Thoreau Log.
21 February 1861. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I have just read a book called “Carolina Sports by Land and Water; including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, Wild-cat, Deer and Bear Hunting, Etc. By the Hon. Wm. Elliot.”

  The writer is evidently a regular sportsman, and describes his sporting with great zest . . .

  However, I should have found nothing peculiar in the book, if it did not contain, near the end, so good an example of human inconsistency . . .

(Journal, 14:315-320)

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