the Thoreau Log.
26 February 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The east side of Deep Cut nearly dry; sand has ceased flowing; west side just beginning . . .

  Returned across Flint’s Pond and the wood-lot, where some Irishman must have tried his first experiment in chopping, his first winter, where the trees were hacked off two feet from the ground, as if with a hatchet,—standing on every side of the tree by turns, and crossing the carf a hundred ways. The owner can commonly tell when an Irishman has trespassed on his wood-lot . . .

(Journal, 3:320-322)

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