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  Erigeron annuus, four feet high, by roadside; also Ranaunculus Pennsylvanicus, or bristly crowfoot, still in bloom. Vide press. A fine view of the Connecticut valley from the hilltop, and of Aseutney Mountain, but not of Monadnock . . .

  In Alcott’s yard, sprung up from his bird’s seed, hemp, like common except fragrant . . .

  Solidago puberula apparently in prime, with the S. stricta, near gerardia oaks. Red choke-berry ripe; how long? On the cast edge of Dennis Swamp, where I saw the strange warbler once . . .

  The prinos berries are now seen, red (or scarlet), clustered along the stems, amid the as yet green leaves. A cool red . . . (Journal, 12:318-320).

  Some weeks ago a. little girl named Buttrick, who was huckleberrying near where the lynx was killed, was frightened by a wild animal leaping out of the bushes near her—over her, as she said—and bounding off. But no one then regarded her story. Also a Mr. Grimes, who lives in Concord just on the line, tells me that some month ago he heard from his house the loud cry of an animal in the woods northward . . .

  The School is at Alexandria; the students are said to be young men well advanced in ye knowledge of ye Latin and Greek classics; the requisitions are, qualification and a person who has had experience in school keeping. Salary $600. a year, besides washing and Board; duties to be entered on ye 5th or 6th of May. If you choose to apply, I will write as soon as I am informed of it. State to me your experience in school keeping.

Yours,
Josiah Quincy

  2 P.M.—To the powder-mills via Harrington’s, returning by railroad.

  The road through the pitch pine woods beyond J. Hosmer’s is very pleasant to me, curving under the pines, without a fence,—the sandy road, with the pines close abutting on it, yellow in the sun and lowbranched, with younger pines filling up all to the ground. I love to see a sandy road like this curving through a pitch pine wood where the trees closely border it without fences . . .