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  The bloom and freshness of the river was gone as sont as the pickerel-weed began to be imbrowned, in the latter part of August. It is fall and harvest there now.

  I remember my earliest going a-graping. (It was a wonder that we ever hit upon the ripe season.) There was more fun in finding, and eying the big purple clusters high on the trees tend climbing to them than in eating them. We used to take care not to chew the skins long lest they should make our mouths sore . . .

  The river this morning, about 7 A.M., is already twenty-eight and a half inches above summer level, and more than twenty inches of this is owing to the rain of yesterday and last night!! By 1.30 P.M., when it has risen two or three inches more, I can just cross the meadow in a straight line to the Rock . . .

  A Carlisle man tells me of a coon he killed in Carlisle which weighed twenty-three and a half pounds and dressed fourteen pounds . . .

  On the 13th I go to J. Q. Adams’s [John Quincy Adams] again to see the lynx. Farmer [Jacob Farmer] said that if the skin was tainted the hair would come off . . .

  Dr. Reynolds tells me of a lynx killed in Andover . . .

  Rice tells me of a common wildcat killed in Sudbury some forty years ago… Mr. Boutwell of Groton tells me that a lynx was killed in Dunstable within two or three years . . .

1 Emerson
2 Parker
3 Channing
4 Sumner
5 Cabot
6 Stone
7 Clarke (J. F.)
8 Weiss
9 Stetson
10 Dwight
11 Thoreau
12 Alcott