A. M. – To Easterbrooks Country with Ricketson.
A hen-hawk circling over that wild region. See its red tail.
The cellar stairs at the old Hunt house are made of square oak timbers; also the stairs to the chamber of the back part of apparently square maple (?) timber, much worn.
The generous cellar stairs!
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, December 20, 1857
A hen-hawk circling over that wild region. See December 20, 1851 ("Saw a large hawk circling over a pine wood below me, and screaming, apparently that he might discover his prey by their flight.") See also February 16, 1854 ("See two large hawks circling over the woods by Walden, hunting, — the first I have seen since December 15th."); March 15, 1856 ("These hawks, as usual, began to be common about the first of March, showing that they were returning from their winter quarters.")
The old Hunt house. See February 17, 1857 ("To the old Hunt house. . . .The rear part has a wholly oak frame, while the front is pine."); February 9, 1858 ("The stairs of the old back part are white pine or spruce, each the half of a square log; those of the cellar in front, oak, of the same form.")
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