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Ther. [thermometer] Wed. [Wednesday] April 6, 1910 Wea. [weather]
Fair
Morning cloudy & foggy up to 9
Remainder of day sunny with 
fresh, damp S.W. wind. Very warm
Spent day at Ball's Hill 
working on canoe & boat house
with James & Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]. Harry and Pat 
digging holes for some hemlocks I 
I intend moving from the Farm.
Not a soul on river to-day except 
myself. I was out a number
of times, sailing the new canoe &
the new big float. Went up 
river as far as Beaver Dam 
Lagoon. Saw a Snipe circle over 
the meadow & alight. One drumming
opposite the cabin at day break,
at 8 A.M. and this evening from 
7 to 8. Pheasants calling at morn
& eve across river. Hylas, Leopard Frogs
& Pickerel Frogs. making a great racket.
[margin]First trilling of Garden Toads this evening[/margin]
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Ther. [thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] April 7, 1910 Wea. [weather]
Forenoon cloud; afternoon sunny.
A trifle cooler with light W. [west] winds.
  Spent day at Ball's Hill 
working with the men. We finished 
with the boat house and planted 
some forty hemlocks which Pat 
& Harry dug in my plantation in 
Birch Field. They came originally 
from Mason, N. H. [Mason, New Hampshire] I from set 
most of those moved to-day in 
front of the chestnut cabin.
Benzoin in full bloom. Shad bush 
very near it. A few rue anemone 
& graveyard pink blossoms opened 
this morning. Two or three Yellow rumps
& a Yellow Palm Warbler in full song near 
cabin. Bittern pumped once at 7 A.M.
drumming at same time opp. [opposite] cabin at
evening. About 10 A.M. we heard the
bugling of Canada geese in distance. They 
passed over very high. 42 in the flock.