...g wreaths of them on bow and mast. The boat he had owned at Newburyport went with him to Worcester, and he wrote to his mother: This afternoon, under those wonderful clouds, I have been floating on Lake Quinsigamond , in the painted and rejuvenated Annie [Laurie]. Another diversion was found in long walks, in which Mr. Higginson was sometimes accompanied by H. G. O. Blake, Thoreau's friend and biographer, an...