Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1918 [November 6, 1918] Wea [Weather] 
28 [degrees] Fine
  Clear & frostily cold with light
northerly wind. Surface of ground
snow white with hoar frost & also
hard frozen, at sunrise.
  At least 50 Juncos in millet patch
front of house whence they rose
practically all together, in a dense cloud,
as I was passing that way. Beside
these I saw only a couple of Jays, a
small flock of Goldfinches, a few scattered
Crows & a cock Pheasant rising on
wing, with loud calling, to alight, after
flying only a few rods over Howe's
grass field.
  Zeph & I spent most of forenoon 
repairing & improving a lawn chicken coop.
Brown came down to cement apple
trees but worked only half the day.
  Burbank & George ploughed with
Lawrence's gray horses at Ritchie place
& in field across road. Zeph & I
transferred water lilies fr. [from] front of house to
pond hole in Berry Pasture, in P.M.

Concord. End (?) of Great War proclaimed.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Nov. 7, 1918 [November 7, 1918] Wea [Weather]
27 [degrees] Belated House Wren Fine.
Nine Partridges flushed.
Another brilliantly clear & sharply frosty
morning followed, however, by a 
comparatively warm & almost windless day
very beautiful & serene withall.
  An unseen House Wren in Forsythia thicket
front of house, 8 A.M., uttered its characteristic 
harsh, grating, scolding notes repeatedly &
then sang sotto voce, several times, thereby
fixing its identity beyond question although
I did not once set eyes on it. 18 or 20
Juncos, 3 or 4 Goldfinches & a Tree Sparrow
also visited our dooryard or orchard.
A Robin & 2 Fox Sparrows in Green Field,
5 or 6 scattered Jays. 9 Partridges flushed,
3 in Birch Field, 2 in Run, 4 in
Berry Pasture. Cock Pheasant calling at eve.
  Spent most of forenoon in the woods
looking for wintergreens, ferns etc. to take to
Cambridge. Out with 20 g. [gauge] gun in mid P.M.
to try for a shot at a Pheasant but flushed
only Partridges & did not care to molest them.
  About 2 P.M. a tremendous din of distant
bells, fire alarm & other whistles began & lasted
for half an hour or more, proclaiming end
of Great War, tis said.

Dr. & Mrs. Emerson drove down to see me about 3 P.M., staying about 20 minutes