the Thoreau Log.
17 November 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Another Indian-summer day, as fair as any we’ve had. I go down the railroad to Andromeda Ponds this afternoon. Captain Hubbard is having his large wood—oak and white pine, on the west of the railroad this side the pond—cut . . .

  I have been so absorbed of late in Captain Brown’s [John Brown] fate as to be surprised whenever I detected the old routine running still,—met persons going about their affairs indifferent . . .

(Journal, 12:447-448)

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