. Through the year with Thoreau. cence of far-off we leap by the side of the open brooks! Whatbeauty in the running brooks! What Hfe! Whatsociety! The cold is merely superficial; it is summerstill at the core, far, far within. Journal, vii, 112. January 31, 1852. I observed this afternoon, onthe Turnpike, that where it drifts over the edge of abrook or a ditch, the snow being damp as it falls,what does not adhere to the sharp edge of the driftfalls on the dead weeds and shrubs and forms adrapery like a napkin or a white tablecloth hangingdown with folds and tassels or fringed border
. Through the year with Thoreau. cence of far-off we leap by the side of the open brooks! Whatbeauty in the running brooks! What Hfe! Whatsociety! The cold is merely superficial; it is summerstill at the core, far, far within. Journal, vii, 112. January 31, 1852. I observed this afternoon, onthe Turnpike, that where it drifts over the edge of abrook or a ditch, the snow being damp as it falls,what does not adhere to the sharp edge of the driftfalls on the dead weeds and shrubs and forms adrapery like a napkin or a white tablecloth hangingdown with folds and tassels or fringed border. Orperhaps the fresh snow merely rounds and whitensthus the old cores. Journal, iii, 260. THE RIVER AS A WINTER HIGHWAY January 20, 1856. It is now good walking on theriver, for, though there has been no thaw since thesnow came, a great part of it has been converted intosnow ice by sinking the old ice beneath the water,and the crust of the rest is stronger than in the fields,because the snow is so shallow and has been so C 129 ] The river is thus an advantage as a highway, not onlyin summer and when the ice is bare in the winter,but even when the snow Hes very deep in the is invaluable to the walker, being now not onlythe most interesting, but, excepting the narrow andunpleasant track in the highways, the only practi-cable route. The snow never lies so deep over it aselsewhere, and, if deep, it sinks the ice and is soonconverted into snow ice to a great extent, besidebeing blown out of the river valley. Here, whereyou cannot walk at all in the summer, is better walk-ing than elsewhere in the winter. Journal, viii, 121. [ 130 ]THE TRACKS OF A FOX Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox ihas obtained the widest and most familiar reputation,from the time of Pilpay and iEsop to the present recent tracks still give variety to a winters tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before meby some hours, or which perhaps I have started, withsuc
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