the Thoreau Log.
2 October 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Cliffs.

  The beggar-ticks (Bidens) now adhere to my clothes. I also find the desmodium sooner thus—as a magnet discovers the steel filings in a heap of ashes—than if I used my eyes alone . . .

(Journal, 4:376)

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