the Thoreau Log.

16 August. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal: “Hear it raining again early when I awake, as it did yesterday, still and steady, as if the season were troubled with a diabetes. P. M. – To Cardinal Ditch… Channing [William Ellery Channing] tells me that he saw a white bobolink in a large flock of [cardinal-flowers] to-day… Talked with Minott, who sits in his wood-shed, having, as I notice, several seats there for visitors, – one a block on a sawhorse, another a patchwork mat on a wheelbarrow, etc., etc… At sunset paddled to Hill. Goodwin has come again to fish, with three poles, hoping to catch some more of those large eels…” (Journal, 11:106-10).