Saturday, July 31, 1869.
  Clear & cool. Ther.
about 60[degrees] - 70[degrees] - 60[degrees].
Rose as usual.
After breakfast went
to work on the four
remaining birds & had
them all made into
skins by noon.
After dinner took
a hammer down to
the mill pond & made
a new raft.
Poled up the mill
pond and before dark
caught a dozen large
trout many of them
weighing half a pound.
Fished entirely with
a fly & broke my tip
on a large fish.
Did not get down to
supper til 8½ o'clock.
Sunday, August 1. 1869.
  Clear & rather warm.
Ther. about 70[degrees] - 75[degrees] - 
70[degrees]. Rose quite late.
Spent the whole
day about the house.
& wrote several
letters. The snow on
Mt. Jefferson is rapidly
melting away.