1891. 
June 28  
Chester  England.
Chester. - A dark lowering day with occasional showers.
  I did not go out from morning to night my time being
spent in writing and packing. Jackdaws are calling at inter-
vals somewhere behind the house. A cricket chirped steadily
in the back yard. It is the first that I have heard in
England. So far as I could make out the sound was precisely
like that of our black house cricket at home.