226 EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
March 24, 1857. If you are describing any 
occurrence or a man, make two or more distinct 
reports at different times. Though you may 
think you have said all, you will to-morrow re¬ 
member a whole new class of facts which per¬ 
haps interested most of all at the time, but did 
not present themselves to be reported. If we 
have recently met and talked with a man and 
would report our experience, we commonly 
make a very partial report at first, failing to 
seize the most significant, picturesque, and dra¬ 
matic points. We describe only what we have 
had time to digest and dispose of in our minds 
without being conscious that there were other 
things really more novel and interesting to us 
which will not fail to occur to us and impress 
us suitably at last. How little that occurs to 
us, are we prepared at once to appreciate. We 
discriminate at first only a few features, and we 
need to reconsider our experience from many 
points of view and in various moods, to preserve 
the whole force of it. 
March 24, 1858. P. M. To Fairhaven Pond, 
east side. The pond not yet open. A cold north- 
by-west wind which must have come over much 
snow and ice. The chip of the song sparrow 
resembles that of the robin, i. e.* its expression is 
the same, only fainter, and reminds me that the 
robin’s peep , which sounds like a note of dis¬ 
tress, is also a chip or call note to its kind. 
