saw what I took at first to be an immense
yellow cat sitting on its haunches in the middle 
of the field in front of the house. It proved 
to be a large & very pale colored Fox which
presently sneaked off & jumped on the wall
into the road.
  The fields are everywhere bare, the roads
settled & dry but the snow still lies deep
in the pine woods. It is 2 ft. deep in
many places on the back side of
Ball's Hill.
Concord. March 31,1904
  Cloudy with chill E. [East] wind.
Snowing fast at evening. The ground frozen hard last night.
  Spent the day on the farm rambling about 
alone in the woods & fields selecting & marking
places for planting various trees. Fully two thirds 
of the Fox Sparrows here yesterday were gone today
but those remaining sang gloriously through 
the forenoon.