Saturday, July 1st.–We had our first dish of green peas (a very small one) yesterday. Every day for the last week has been tremendously hot; and our garden flourishes like Eden itself, only Adam could hardly have been doomed to contend with such a ferocious banditti of weeds.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal entry for July 1st, 1843. From Passages from the American Note-Books.
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i think his description of weeds as banditti is very accurate.
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Very nice.
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