Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Mar. 9, 1914 [March 9, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Sunny, calm & mild turning 
to cold with high N.W. [northwest] wind
towards night.
  Saw 5 or 6 House Sparrows &
heard Crows cawing. Birds
seem to have been fewer in
number & variety about our place
of late than they were early
in the winter.
  Worked most of day on Hawk Owl
story revising & elaborating it
as C. [Caroline Brewster] type-copied and adding
almost two pages after she had
finished. About 4 P.M. I began 
on Great Horned Owl story &
got down crudely more than
a page of that. I had not 
intended to start it now but
the temptation cannot be resisted.
  Gilbert motored C. to Arlington
Heights & elsewhere in P.M. She &
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud to me this evening.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Mar. 10, 1914 [March 10, 1914] Wea [Weather]
18 [degrees] Fine
Clear & frosty with brisk N.W. [northwest] wind.
  2 Blue Jays & 3 or 4 House Sparrows
seen in Garden. Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker] calling there.
Crows cawing loudly at sunrise.
A Flicker shouting long & lustily
many times in succession about
9 A.M. Nothing seen of the Thrasher
since the 3rd.
  Worked all day on Great Horned
Owl story. The first page did
not hang well together and had
to be wholly rewritten. Then I
composed another page. Both
will now pass muster, I trust.
although not so good as I
could hope. Somehow i was not
in writing mood to-day.
  Went to the polls at 9 A.M. with
C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]. We all voted. They
went in town afterwards. They
have been reading aloud this evening
in the hall.