the Thoreau Log.
9 April 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I frequently detect the Canadian in New England by his coarse gray homespun capote, with a picturesque red sash round his waist, and his wellfurred cap made to protect his ears and face against the severities of his winter . . .

  Went into the old Hunt house, which they said Uncle Abel said was built one hundred and fifty years ago. The second story projects five or six inches over the first, the garret a foot over the second at the gables. There are two large rooms, one above the other, though the walls are low. The fireplace in the lower room rather large, with a high shelf of wood painted or stained to represent mahogany . . .

(Journal, 3:393-394)

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