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Quotation from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
“Thus I took Emerson’s advice and hitched my dumping-wagon bed to a star.”
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #18359)
Describing how he used a spy-glass lens and the sunrise to burn a thread and set off the bed that put him on his feet.
Citation: "Thus I took Emerson’s advice and hitched my dumping-wagon bed to a star." — John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #18359). (id the-story-of-my-boyhood-and-youth-q7)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
