the Thoreau Log.
11 January 1861. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I presume that every one of my audience knows what a huckleberry is,—has seen a. huckleberry, gathered a huckleberry, and, finally, has tasted a huckleberry,—and, that being the case, I think that I need offer no apology if I make huckleberries my theme this evening.

  What more encouraging sight at the end of a long ramble than the endless successive patches of green bushes,—perhaps in some rocky pasture,—fairly blackenedwith the profusion of fresh and glossy berries? . . .

(Journal, 14:309-310)

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