Carl Remick wrote:
>
> >As Henry David Thoreau said of suspected
> milk-watering: "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you
> find a trout in the milk."
That's always been my favorite quote from Thoreau, but I can never remember where I got it from. Where in his writings does it occur?
Did he apply it to circumstantial evidence or to anecdotal evidence? I've always used it for the latter.
Carrol