Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Mar. 3, 1914 [March 3, 1914] Wea. [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy, calm, mild with a little
fine, drizzling rain.
  Shortly before I came down to
breakfast Percy saw the Thrasher
on ground under Parkman apple tree
& in this tree at that time no
less than five Blue Jays. I heard
Jays screaming later & saw a 
Junco flitting through the lilacs.
  Worked all day on Saw-whet
Owl story adding 3 pp. [pages] & practically
finishing it although I may have
to spend most of to-morrow
revising it as it is hastily written
and crude, no doubt, in spots.
Very much of it has been completed
from journal passages but these 
have required lots of tinkering.
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] returned from Springfield
in time for lunchion [luncheon]. She & C. [Caroline Brewster]
read aloud this evening.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Mar. [March] 4, 1914 Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear, calm, mild. Ever-increasing
patches of bare ground have been
showing for several days. They
multiplied brodened [sic] [broadened] rapidly
to-day but have not as yet begun
to equal in total extent the surfaces
still covered with ice or snow.
  Several House Sparrows invaded the
Garden to-day, chirping rather noisily
and insistently. It has seen but
little of their presence during the past
two months. The only other bird
noted there to-day was a Hairy W. [Woodpecker].
  I had expected to spend some time
revising the Saw-whet Owl story to-day
but had not anticipated that it
absorb my attention from 10 A.M.
to 7 P.M., as has proved to be the
case. Nor have I quite done with
it yet, unfortunately.
  C. & E.R.S. [Caroline & Elizabeth Simmons] treated me to the usual
evening reading, first of the Transcript,
then from Trollope's "The Warden."