Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 20, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Rainy
Light rain falling almost ceaselessly.
Air windless mild but chilly.
Snow & ice wholly gone everywhere.
Grass very green in dooryard but still
brown in all mowing fields.
Hylas & Wood Frogs in full cry
last night, a few vocal today.
  First noted - Pine Warbler in white
pines east of Ritchie place.
One Fox Sparrow & one Junco feeding on lawn.
Rusty Blackbird heard. No other north-
bound migrants. Local birds not
numerous. Grass Finches singing freely
Also Robins - in evening twilight.
3 [2 male] Cowbirds & a [female] in elm for
half hour or more the 2 [males] "showing"
by turns, in seeming friendly rivalry,
swelling out their plumage uttering the
o-cek & whistling call, all perched 
close together among topmost twigs of tree.
Timmy & I had two woodland walks.
He started a Rabbit & 2 Partridges.
[male and female in flock] Pheasants in ploughed field front of house.
Spent most of day indoors, writing letters.

Concord - Boston - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 21, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Revised return Tangible prop., at City Hall. Dull.
  Cloudy, foggy, humid, windless,
threatening rain but none fell until after
dark when there were heavy showers. 
  Garden birds 2 Robins (1 [in full song]), a White-throat
Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow] ([male in weak song], evidently self-same bird here
thro last winter), [female] Downy [Downy Woodpecker], Flicker in
catalapa [catalpa] shouting ceaselessly, Grackles & Jay
heard, also Crow. Only a few House Sparrows.
  To Boston by 8.06 train from Concord. Sat
with Geo. Keyes in smoking car. Went straight
to our office. Dictated answer to State Tax
Com. in re an enquiry from their office
regarding tax on Trustee Com. exceeding 5%.
To City Hall, Cambridge 10.45 A.M. saw
all three Assessors two of them very intelligent
& courteous, third less so. Substituted another
return for one made on 9th increasing 
amount of "tangible" taxable property to $6000.
Destroyed signatures of first ret. [return] Shall keep it as mem.
Hair cut at Mark's. Home for solitary lunch at 1.
Wrote cheques for bills in P.M. Dined at 7 with
C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] Latter read "Pride & Prejudice" to C. & me
this eve.