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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau in Twenty Volumes THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN TWENTY VOLUMES VOLUME XVIII MANUSCRIPT EDITION LIMITED TO SIX HUNDRED COPIES NUMBER /fYO Digitized by the Internet. Archive in 2012 with funding from Boston Public Library http://www.archive.org/detaiJs/writingsofhenryd18thor Ball's Hill and River Flood from Ponkaivtasset Rill (page 96) THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU JOURNAL EDITED BY BRADFORD TORREY xn March 2, 1859-November 30, 1859 BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY MDCCCCVI CGFYRtGHY IQOS Bit HOUGHTON, jjlFFj.foJ U£ CQ. ' Ail. right's reserve^ / \ CONTENTS CHAPTER I. March, 1859 (Mi. 41) 3 The Silvery Willow Catkins — The Serene Bluebird — Snow Buntings — The First Springing — Lecturer and Audience — Melting Snow — The White-bellied Nuthatch's Song — Hawks — Skunk-Cabbage — A Shrike's Song — Listening for Birds — Science and the Mysteries — The Green in Water and Sky — Green Radical Leaves — Ice and Water — Surfaces — The Open River Channel — Sounds on a March Day — The Inno- cent Bluebird — The Old Hunt House — Accident in the Best Things — The Browns of Early Spring — Garfield's Trap- ping — Where to find Indian Arrowheads — The Terrestrial Browns — The Hunt House — Floating Ice in the River — A Change in the Weather — A New Season — A Great Gull — Water-Lines — The Blushing Willow Twigs — A Shore with- out Shore-Marks — A Variety of Weather — The Winthrops' Front Door — Freshet Driftwood — White Pines in a Wind — The Earth in Russet Garb — The Interest in the Weather — A Parcel of Sparrows — Sailing in a Strong Wind — Tree Spar- rows and Hyemalis — A Field of Old Ice in Fair Haven Pond — Soaring Hen-Hawks — A March Landscape — Early Spring Colors — The Weather-wise Wood Frog — Goldfinches in Winter Dress — The Tawny Moist Banks — Trapping — A Little Bream — Unobtrusive Early Flowers — The Weather- Stain on Wood — The Search for Arrowheads — The Indian Arrowhead — A Flock of Blackbirds — Migrating Geese — Our Vernal Lakes — The Leopard-spotted Earth — The Wary Geese — Queer Sounds made by a Red Squirrel — A Pair of Sheldrakes — The Perception of Color — Wood Frogs. CHAPTER II. April, 1859 (Mi. 41) 104 Indian Relics — Swarms of Gnats — Squirrels and Pine Cones — The Sound of Snipe — Lichens and Mosses — Pecuniary Reward — Ripple-Marks on the Shore of Walden — The vi CONTENTS Brown Season — Willow Flowers — A Fish Hawk — Stones thrown out by a Woodchuck — A Peculiar Willow — The Fur Trade — The Protection of Birds — The Early Greens of the Swamps — A Forest Viol — Watching Ripples on a Pond — An Old Oak Stump — The Early-blooming Plants — Shel- drakes and Black Ducks — Transported Meadow-Crust — The Note of the Frog — The Bay-Wing's Song — The Rich- ness of the Farmer's Life — The Ripples on a Rill — The Jingle of the Pine Warbler — Sounds of Awakened Nature — The Voice of the Hunting Hound — Stedman Buttrick's Shooting — Sound Acorns — An Aquarium — Setting out Pines — Salamanders — The Field Sparrow — Impressions and Ideas — Fishworms — A Squirrel's Nest — Times and Seasons — Green-topped Tussocks of Sedge — The Greening Grass — Notes of the Season — A Walk about Lynn — The Small Blue Butterflies — The Expanding Buds of Viburnum nudum — Ducks in Walden. CHAPTER III. May, 1859 (Mr. 41) 170 The Worship of the Devil — Glorifying God — Whirlwinds — The Arrowheadiferous Sands of Concord — Priests of the Sun — A Peculiar Fragrance — Woodchucks — The First Shadow — The Yellow Birch in Bloom — Swarms of Gnats — Miscel- laneous Notes — A Dead Snake — A Black Sucker — The Tender Yellow Foliage — Some Notes of Late May — A Black Snake — A Woodchuck at Bay. CHAPTER IV. June, 1859 (Mr. 41) 197 A Rose-breasted Grosbeak's Nest — Notes of Early June — A Pout's Nest and Young — The Rose-breasted Grosbeak — A Sea of Pipes — Rain on the River — Young Flying Squirrels — The Meadow Revolution — The Dam Controversy — A Luna Moth — A Flying Squirrel's Nest. CHAPTER V. July, 1859 (Mr. 41-42) 216 Leaping Frogs — A Study of the Physiography of Concord River — Shoals, Bends, and Weeds — Heart-Leaf — The River's Course — The Floated Meadow — The Phalanxes of CONTENTS vii u Bulrushes — Transplanted Button-Bushes — Going to the Beach" — A Bird's Nest — The Stone Bridge — The Assabet — Eddies — A Sand-Bank — The Assabet Stone Bridge — The Rivers and the Sabbath — The Wreck of the Powder-Mill — The River in Billerica — The Rocks at the Falls — The Falls — River-Weed — The Concord River — Pestered by Flies — The Children of the River — Breams' Nests — The Rocks in the River — Measuring the Current of the River — Dog-Day Fog — Country Boys Fishing — Tall Cat-Tails — The Ox-Bow — The Beaver-Hole Meadows — Cardinal- Flower. CHAPTER VI. August, 1859 (Mi. 42) 272 The Current of the River — Deep Holes in the River — Gy- rating Water-Bugs — A Grassy Sea — Water-Mosses — The Secrets of the River disclosed — Floating a Canal-Boat — Minott's Account of the Great Meadows — Clamshell Skiffs — Blue Herons — The Sabbath-keeping River — Peculiar In- sects — The White Bark of a Buttonwood — Plants touched by Frost — The Lusty Weeds — The First Frost — Dreaming Awake — Late Low Blackberries — How to tell if a Water- melon is Ripe — Berrying — Song of the Dying Bullock — A Cool Morning — A Rise in the River — The Prevailing Flowers of the Last of August — The History of a Shower. CHAPTER, VII. September, 1859 (Ml. 42) 308 Creatures that live between the Two Sides of a Thin Leaf — Birds and Berries — The Fruit of the Arum — Shoes and the Wearer — A Bad Debt — Purple Grass — Flocks of Ducks — Liatris — The State Muster — September Berries — The Gray Goldenrod — A Cat caught in a Trap — Windfall Apples — A Small Hawk — Brooks's Pigeon-Stands — Emerson's Calf and the Milk-Pitcher — Home-grown Tobacco — The Want of Energy and Precision — The House and the Man — Grass- hoppers — An Abundant Crop of Cones — The Fruits of the Temperate Zone — A Statue to Horace Mann — Wild Pigeons — Memorable Deeds — Weeds in Old Cellars — Non-Pro- ducers — Rank Vegetation — Leisure Necessary for Great — viii CONTENTS Works of Art — The Changing Ferns — The Scent of Dick- sonia — The Old Carlisle Road — Some Autumnal Berries A White Pine Needle — Ferns — Nightshade Berries — The Gossamer Spiders — An Ear for Music — Digging Potatoes — Evergreen Ferns. CHAPTER VIII. October, 1859 (Mr. 42) 361 Shrub Oak Acorns — The Climbing Fern — Autumnal Weather — Migrant Warblers — Leopard-spotted Leaves — The Smoke from a Chimney — The Ideal and the Real — Dicksonia Fern — Learning and Knowledge — A Flock of Shore Larks — A Season-ripening Frost — A Foretaste of Spring — A Fungus in a Wine-Cellar — Acorns and Nuts — The Autumn Fruits — The Red Regiments of Oaks — The Need of Public Parks — The New Musquash-Houses — Let- ters and Things — Americanisms — The Meander and the Musketaquid — Celestial Phenomena — Andropogon — Cold Sphagnum — Frosty Weather — Vaccinium Oxycoccus — A Simple and Independent Life — Fragrant Thoughts — The Strange Sights of the Country — John Brown's Raid — Arch- angelica — Remarks of Neighbors on Brown's Death — The Woodenness of Man — Heroes, Imaginary and Real — John Brown's "Insanity" — A Hypocritical Government — Arti- chokes — A Cold Day — The Slave-Ship — John Brown and Other American Heroes — Brown's Utterances after his Cap- ture — The Distance between Neighbors — A Vetch in Bloom — The Modern Christian — Brown and his Company — Brown's Personality — A Sublime Spectacle — The Weapons of War — John Brown's Deed — Brown's "Failure" — Brown's Puritanism — His Early Life and his Experiences in Kansas — His Orderly Book — Conscience and the Law — John Brown in Kansas — The Newspapers on Brown — Gov- ernor Wise's Opinion of him — A Real Death — Brown's Page in History. CHAPTER IX. November, 1859 (Mt. 42) 441 Withered Andropogon — A Flock of Dead Leaves — A Re- markable Sunset — A White Cat in the Woods — The Legis- CONTENTS ix lature and John Brown's Raid — Poetry read in the Light of Brown's Martyrdom — Goldfinches — The Outrage on Sum- ner — The Red Andromeda — An Anecdote of John Brown — The Creaking of a Blow — Wood-Lots and Walking — A Brown Creeper — A Large Ant-Hill — Therien's Checkerberry- Tea — A Basket of Chips — A Flock of Snow Buntings — Concord and John Brown. ILLUSTRATIONS ball's hill and river flood from PONKAWTASSET HILL (page 96) Frontispiece RIPPLES ON GOOSE POND 128 LARGE JUNIPER ON FAIR HAVEN HILL 358 VIEW FROM PINE HILL OVER WALDEN POND, TOWARD MT. WACHUSETT 378 TUFTS OF ANDROPOGON LIGHTED BY THE SUN 442 JOURNAL VOLUME XII THE JOURNAL OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU VOLUME XII I MARCH, 1859 (JET. 41) March 2. Wednesday. P. M. — To Cassandra Ponds and down river. It is a remarkably cold day for March, and the river, etc., are frozen as solidly as in the winter and there is no water to be seen upon the ice, as usually in a winter day, apparently because it has chiefly run out from beneath on the meadows and left the ice, for often, as you walk over the meadows, it sounds hollow under your tread. I see in the Deep Cut, on the left-hand, or east, side, just beyond the clay, a ravine lately begun, in a slightly different manner from the Clamshell one. The water running down the steep sand-bank (which is some thirty or thirty-five feet high), it being collected from the field above, had worn a channel from four to six inches wide, gradually, through the frozen crust of the sand, which was one to two feet thick, and, reach- ing the loose unfrozen sand beneath, had washed it downward, and out through the narrow channel lower 4 JOURNAL [March 2 down, until quite a cavern was formed, whose bottom was eight or ten feet below the surface, while it was five or six feet wide.
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