the Thoreau Log.
28 March 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Uncle Charles [Charles Dunbar] buried. He was born in February, 1780, the winter of the Great Snow, and he dies in the winter of another great snow,—a life bounded by great snows. Cold, and the earth stiff again, after fifteen days of steady warm and, for the most part, sunny days (without rain), in winch the snow and ice have rapidly melted.

  Sam Barrett tells me that a boy caught a crow in his neighborhood the other day in a trap set for mink . . .

(Journal, 8:230-232)

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