To Walden

July 26. 

I see a bream swimming about in that smaller pool by Walden in Hubbard's Wood, though entirely cut off from the pond now. So they may be well off in the Wyman meadow or Pout's Nest.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 26, 1860

I see a bream swimming about in that smaller pool by Walden in Hubbard's Wood. See June 21, 1854 ("In the little meadow pool, or bay, in Hubbard's shore, I see two old pouts tending their countless young close to the shore. . . . I think also that I see the young breams in schools hovering over their nests while the old are still protecting them.")

In November, 1858 Thoreau had discovered a new species of bream in Walden pond. See November 26, 1858 (" a great many minnows about one inch long . . . shaped like bream, but had the transverse bars of perch.”); November 27, 1858 ("I got seventeen more of those little bream of yesterday. “);November 30, 1858 (“How wild it makes the pond and the township to find a new fish in it!”)

So they may be well off in the Wyman meadow or Pout's Nest. ["Pout’s Nest": HDT's name for Wyman's Meadow near Walden. Place Names of Henry David Thoreau in Concord,] Complare June 7, 1858 ("Pouts, then, make their nests in shallow mud-holes or bays, in masses of weedy mud, or probably in the muddy bank; and the old pout hovers over the spawn or keeps guard at the entrance. Where do the Walden pouts breed when they have not access to this meadow?")

July 26. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, July 26

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

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