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Ther. [Thermometer] Thurs. [Thursday] June 23, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Forenoon sunny but densely hazy
& very sultry; afternoon brilliantly 
clear with fresh, cool north wind.
  To Ball's Hill at 7 A.M. returning
at 7.45 P.M. Duren spraying
there all day chiefly on south
side near cabins where the trees
are reinfested but not as yet
badly eaten. I attended closely
to this work while it lasted. At
5 P.M. started down river in
Rushton canoe. Paddled to Carlisle
bridge & had a glorious sail all 
the way back. The woods down
river are badly eaten in spots
but not worse than last year.
Wilson's Thrushes in full song
as I walked homeward at evening.
Heard no less than 8 of them.
[Margin]First fire flies this evening. Two of them.[/margin]

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Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] June 24, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Clear & warm in forenoon.
Partly cloudy with cool, gusty N. [north]
wind in P.M. Evening calm & cool.
  To Ball's Hill at 7.30 A.M.
walking down. Pat & I worked
awhile on the lupin beds in 
Pine Park. After that we worked
at the cabins. Harry & Pat enlarging
the excavation for the canoe vault.
In mid afternoon I paddled down
river as far as Pad Island.
Had supper at cabin. Just as I
was finishing it Mr. Dexter &
his brother arrived in a canoe
hoping to hear the "Kicker." We
listened until 8.40 but heard only
a Va. Rail [Virginia Rail], Bull & Green Frogs.
Dexter heard 3 or 4 Cis. stellaris [Cistothorus stellaris] on
way down. I got back to Farm
at 9. George Webb's wife died to-day.