the Thoreau Log.
21 November 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  y mother says that, visiting once at Captain Pulsifer’s at the North End, two sea-captains’ wives told the girl, when the things were carried out to be replenished, not to turn out their slops, as it would drown their husbands who were at sea.

  Frank Brown showed me to-day the velvet duck (white winged coot) and the surf duck . . .

  Old Mr. Joseph Hosmer, who lives where Hadley did, remembers when there were two or three times as many inhabitants in that part of the town as there are now . . .

(Journal, 3:126-128)

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