Cambridge-Boston-Cotuit
Ther [Thermometer]   SAT. AUG. 16, 1913 [Saturday, August 16, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & hot with light S.W. [southwest]
wind (cool & fresh at eve. on Cape)
To Harvard Sq. at 10 A.M.
After hair cut then to Boston.
Talked with Arthur at office
called at [Forgie's?] to try to get
payment for C.'s [?] for
which he promised to remit by
Monday. Then to Union
Club to dine with Almy.
Spoke with Tom [Barbour?] &
[?] [Dodge?] there. Then
to South Station where we
took 2.05 train. Intensely 
hot ride to W. Barnstable.
Big flock of Terns & Laughing
Gulls fishing in Ship canal.
Motor ride to Cotuit & [?]
[?] there by Mrs. Almy,
Mary, Helen & Anna.
[margin] Walked through woods,
before supper, with Mr. & Mrs. A. [/margin]
Cotuit
Ther [Thermometer]   SUN. AUG. 17, 1913 [Sunday, August 17, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & warm with fresh
S.W. [southwest] wind.
Out saling [sailing] in forenoon with Almy,
his daughter Mary & son Charles Jr.
Beat down the [Narrows?] beyond village.
To outlet channel where I saw the
sand spit on which I shot 2 Red breast
Snipe [Red-breasted Snipe] in June in the early '70's.
Spent P.M. in & close about house
Cabot Almy returned from Orleans bringing
as result of two days shooting with a Mr.
Jewell, 2 ad.[adult] Beetle heads, a young Willet,
a Still Sandpiper, a Dowthatcher, a 
Sandling & 7 Lesser Yellow-legs [Lesser Yellowlegs]. We all
turned to & helped him pluck them.
He says Charlie Lamb killed 80 large
birds at Orleans in one day early in 
the present month. A few Laughing Gulls
& Common Terns passing & repassing this
house all day. One Fish Hawk passed.