Tuesday, February 11, 1868.
  Clear & pleasant.
Snow for about a
half an hour. Ther.
about 2[degrees] - 18[degrees] - 6[degrees].
Rose rather early and
walked down to 
school with E. Dodge.
When i got back
from school swept
off a large pond in
our yard. Skated there
all the P.M. with
Farrar, Swain, Nashburn
& Crosswell. did not
have to study in the
evening. Went up &
got R. Deane & E. Dodge
& skated with them 
all the evening.
the Robins have found
out our Hawthorn
tree and are there at
all times of the day.
Wednesday, February 12, 1868.
  Clear & pleasant.
Ther. about 0[degrees] - 26[degrees] - 18[degrees].
Rose as usual and
rode down to school
in fathers sleigh.
Rode up from the
Gymnasium on an ice
pung. Had lunch as
normal; then E. Dodge
came down & with Bill
we swept the pond.
Skated then all the
P.M. with Wholeman,
Farrar, Allen, Washburn,
& E. Dodge. Father engaged
my pointer puppy to day.
The yard was literally crowded
with Robins all day as many as
fifty being here at once & sometimes
a dozen at once on the snow.
Saw three Cedar birds
the first of the season.
Studied up on Virgil as we
are to be examined to morrow.