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Ther. [Thermometer] WED. MAR. 29, 1911 [Wednesday, March 29, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
H.A. Purdie dying.  Fine.
Breathed his last at 10 P.M.
  Clear with light southerly to 
easterly winds. Warm at noon.
Ground frost hard last night.
  Spent day at Ball's Hill with
4 men. We cleaned up and
burned all the big piles of 
brush left behind the hill last
autumn. 2 Phoebees [Phoebes] near cabin
one in full song all forenoon.
In late P.M. several Song
Sparrows & 6 or 7 Red- wings [red-wing blackbirds]
were singing along the river.
It is wholly free from ice &
within its bounds. At the Farm
Fox Sparrows literally swarmed
and sang gloriously at morn & noon.
C. [Caroline] telephoned this morning that
Purdie's case had become quite
hopeless & this evening that he
may survive the night but
not the morrow.
[margin] 2 Deer [in a flock] seen in Berry Pasture by Zeb. [/margin]
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Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. MAR. 30, 1911 [Thursday, March 30, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
First Wood Frogs croaking.  Fair
Alternating cloud & sunshine
Violent & cool west wind.
A harsh & disagreeable day.
  To Ball's Hill with 4 men
at 8 A.M. We began cutting &
burning trees about the big opening
east of Pine Ridge. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] joined
me at 10 A.M. bringing news
of Henry Purdie's death last
night at 10 o'clock. He had it
from the Hospital. We could not 
get our house. Line not working.
When I got back to Farm after
supper got C. [Caroline] at Mayflower &
Batchy at his house & talked with
former thrice & latter twice.
  Wood Frogs croaking in pool behind
orchard at 5 P.M. although more than
1/2 of it is still encased in
winter ice.