1868
Wednesday, December.
  Clear but very cold.
Ther. about 10 [degrees]—25 [degrees]—
16 [degrees]. Rose as usual.
Walked down with
'the boys'. Wrote the fifth
Latin Comp.to day.
my per. 60.
After getting home
from school skinned
& stretched the three
musk rats shot
yesterday & R. Deane,
who got back from
N. York last night
called in. Then studied
at the R's. In the
evening stuffed the
Com. Crossbill shot
Dec. 12, a week and a half
ago.
1868
Thursday, December 24.
  Clear but excessively
cold. Ther. about 6 [degrees]—
20 [degrees]—6 [degrees]. Rose as
usual. Got dismissed
at recess. After eating
lunch, took Dart &
started off on foot, shooting.
Went up first through the
swamp which was frozen
almost solid. They were
making a road through
the upper part of it, &
Stimpson's field is shortly
to be converted into a brick
yard. Then through the
Robin swamp & Pine Woods
into Belmont. Found my
Musk rat brook entirely
closed by ice. Came back
across Smith's & Fresh ponds,
on the former of which the ice
was twelve & on the latter about
eight inches thick.
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