the Thoreau Log.
4 May 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—By boat to Holden Swamp . . .

At Clamshell Shore, I see a clam lying up with open valves . . . Coming back, I talk with Witherell at William Wheeler’s landing. He comes pushing Wheeler’s square-ended boat down-stream with a fish-spear. Says he caught a snapping turtle in the river May 1st. He sits on the side of my boat by the shore a little while, talking with me . . .

(Journal, 10:396-400)

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