As I go up the Walden road, at Breed’s, Hubbard, driving his cows through the weed-field, scares a woodchuck, which comes running through the wall and down the road, quite gray, and does not see me in the road a rod off.
He stops a rod off when I move in front of him. Short legs and body flat toward the ground, i.e. flattened out at sides.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 16, 1855
Short legs and body flat toward the ground . . . See May 15, 1856 ("At Heywood Spring I see a clumsy woodchuck, . . . It runs, or waddles, to its hole two or three rods off, and as usual pauses, listening, at its entrance till I start again, then dives in”)
Short legs and body flat toward the ground . . . See May 15, 1856 ("At Heywood Spring I see a clumsy woodchuck, . . . It runs, or waddles, to its hole two or three rods off, and as usual pauses, listening, at its entrance till I start again, then dives in”)
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