1893
Jan 10.
No 2.
crest of the hill for a moment, a fine sight. During the con-
fusion four Meadow larks rose from somewhere near the manure
heaps and flew off towards the Winchester place. Soon after-
wards I heard a White-bellied Nuthatch in the belt of large
trees near the Coolidge piggery.
  On reaching the old causeway I paused and listened to the
tinkling and rustling of ice in the salt creek below where the
tide was falling, the sound carrying me back thirty years or
more to a winter morning when I heard it for the first time in
this very spot. In the pool just above the road French and I
used to catch Sticklebacks in those old days. Spelman tried
for them there last year but could find none. It is singular 
that they have disappeared for the brook has change but little.
  A mink had crossed this causeway after the snow had ceased
falling, probably early this morning coming from the direction of
Charles River. Above the causeway he had followed the brook
closely for perhaps two hundred yards then struck across the open meadow to the
cemetery forcing his way with apparent ease through the fresh,
light snow leaving a continuous furrow about three inches wide
by as many deep with the foot prints clearly marked in the
bottom. These showed that many of his leaps had covered a dis-
tance of fifteen inches or more. In places he had tunnelled