Wednesday, October 13, 1869.
  Cloudy and warm. Rained
hard most of the day.
Ther. about 68[degrees] - 70[degrees] - 
60[degrees].
  Rose as usual.
Spent the whole day
in the house fixing
over my Concord skins
most of which I found
alive with maggots.
Thursday, October 14, 1869.
  Clear and cool. Ther about
46[degrees] - 60[degrees] - 50[degrees].
Rose at 4.30 A.M. and
went down to the pond.
Finding nothing on the
broad I went down
into Cambridge nook and
killed two Coots at a
shot. Then Charlie
Chenery got on to some
Ruddies and killed
three and Howard
Richerson two.
Got home at 10 A.M.
In P.M. rode down
to the pond and tinker
up my boat.