Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 24, 1918 Wea [ Weather]
 First dandelion Fine
Clear & cool with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins, several
House Sparrows, 3 Grackles, 2 Crows.
  To Harvard Square by Ford car
at 10.30 to spend 1 1/2 hours in 
Dr Andrew's chair. He filled three
teeth, one rather painful one.
After leaving his office I called
at Charles River Trust Co. &
purchased a $1000 Liberty Bond or
rather ten $100 bonds giving my
cheque in payment & taking a
receipt for which the bonds will
be given me when-ever I call
for them.
  In P.M. took a short walk through
Buckingham & Parker Sts.
Calling informally on Mrs. Scudder
who was out in her garden pruning
rose bushes.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] confined to her room by a
 headache. Lizzy [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to me in hall
this evening.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, April 25, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with strong westerly wind.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins [male & female]; [male & female] Blue Jays;
[male & female] Crows; 2 Hermit Thrushes & a Junco
on ground beneath Parkman apple tree;
9 Grackles frequenting lilacs all day long;
2 Sapsuckers, one adult [male] on trunk of
apple tree & maple in jungle, other an
im. [immature female] (showing no red on head) drinking
sap from sap-well in trunk of birch
at west end of house about sunset.
Shortly before then I saw both these
Sapsuckers fly off into Hubbard Park.
one following the other closely.
Mt. Auburn [Mount Auburn Cemetery] birds. 2 Robins, solitary Virio [in full song],
Purple Finche [in full song], Flicker 2 [in full song], Red-wing [Red-winged Blackbird] [male in flight],
Starling 2 on ground, Crows 8 or 10, cock
Pheasant on ground near tower, 2 Kingfishers
flying together over larger pond.
  To Harvard Square at 10.30.
Dr. Andrews filled two front teeth.
Mrs. Melvin called at 3 P.M. bringing
me some beautiful "Fire flame" Irish
single roses. She motored me to 
Mt. Auburn where we spent an
hour or more, visiting her family lot
& ours as well as the Purdie's.
Saw a Sparrow Hawk fly low over
Harvard Square.