Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862 & Johnson Clifton 1865-1940

Author:Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 & Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Canoes and canoeing, Maine -- Description and travel, Piscataquis County (Me.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1916-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH 99

breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all. Formerly, when lying awake at midnight in those woods, I had listened to hear some words or syllables of their language, but it chanced that I listened in vain until I heard the cry of the loon. I have heard it occasionally on the ponds of my native town, but there its wild-ness is not enhanced by the surrounding scenery.

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.

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