Cambridge - Portland.
Ther. [Thermometer] Thur. [Thursday] Jan. 14, 1909 [January 14, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
  Cloudy with N.E. [Northeast] wind. Warmer.
Snowing all day but at no time
heavily & making scarce an in inch.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] & I took 9 A.M. train,
Eastern Div. [Eastern Division], for Portland, Me. [Portland, Maine],
arriving at 12.30. The landscape,
half-veiled by thin falling snow, was
most attractive & I watched it about
all the way. Saw many Crows,
two small flocks of Redpolls and 
2 [in a flock] Meadow Larks, the last in salt
marsh near Seabrook N.H. [Seabrook, New Hampshire], Saw
rabbit hunter, gun in hand, 
trampling a brush heap in woods,
probably to drive out a rabbit. 
Took rooms at Lafayette Hotel. Met
Dr. & Mrs. Gehring there. The Doctor
spent most of P.M. with C. 

Portland - Boston - Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] Jan. 15, 1909 [January 15, 1909] Wea. [Weather] 
  Forenoon clearing; afternoon
cloudless. Calm & very warm.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] & I left Portland at 9 A.M.
by Eastern Div. [Eastern Division] & reached Boston
at 12.30. Had lunch in station
& took car for Back Bay where
we parted, she to go to Roxbury.
I walked out along new parkway
to mouth of Stony Brook to look
at birds swimming in open water
there. Counted 43 Whistlers, 6
Black Ducks & 42 Mallards, the 
last named half tame birds from the 
Fenway ponds. There were about
200 Herring Gulls mostly on the ice.
Got home at 3.30 & wrote a lot of letters.
Charles M. Carter his daughter
Dorothy & John Nichols called at 8.15
& stayed until nearly 10. I last
saw Charley in Feb. 1879 [February 1879]!