Friday, July 23, 1869.
  A.M. clear & warm
P.M. Cloudy &
sprinkled several
times. Ther. about
70[degrees] - 80[degrees] - 70[degrees].
Rose as usual.
After breakfast
hired a horse & wagon
& rode down to Glen
Elis falls with mother
stopping frequently
to catch butterflies
of which I took about
twenty. Got home at
1 P.M.
  After dinner went
down to the mill
pond & took twenty
three trout with my
fly rod but only
three with the fly.
Saturday, July 24, 1869.
  Clear and the hottest
day that we have
had here. Ther. about
70[degrees] - 84[degrees] - 70[degrees].
Rose as usual.
After breakfast took
my gun & Dart &
went down to Mill
pond and after spend-
ing the forenoon pol-
ing about took Rhy-
acophilus Solitarius two
both [female], Contopus Virens
[male], and Tringoides Mac-
ularius young [male].
Spent the P.M. in
stuffing my birds.
There are now only
about two hundred
guests in the house,
and it seems quite
dull here.