Chimney Swallows.
Wenesday July 25th 1866.  
  This evening I saw hundreds
of chimney swallows pass into the
North West flue of an old fashioned
chimney in a rather small country
house in the town of Plymouth N.H.
I was attracted by hearing their
loud rattling notes and [delete]in[/delete] looking 
in the direction from which the sound
proceeded I saw a vast cloud of
chimney swallows in the centre
of which numbers at a time were
pitching themselves in their peculiar
manner into the chimney; this
was at about five minutes of 8.P.M.
I made all haste to reach the spot
which by the road was perhaps 1/8
of a mile from one but before I could