Miss Minott talks of cutting down the oaks about her house for fuel, because she cannot get her wood sledded home on account of the depth of the snow, though it lies all cut there. James, at R. W. E.’s, [Ralph Waldo Emerson] water his cows at the door, because the brook is frozen . . .

  F. Morton [Frank Morton] hears to-day from Plymouth that three men have just caught in Sandy Pond, in Plymouth, about two hundred pounds of pickerel in two days . . .