# Which hour of yesterday would the writer of this passage be unable to forgive you for?

_Theme: **time** - card 4/4 - 2026-05-12_

> In the fall the loon (_Colymbus glacialis_) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen. At rumor of his arrival all the Mill-dam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on foot, two by two and three by three, with patent rifles and conical balls and spy-glasses.

-- Henry David Thoreau, _Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience_

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