Concord, Mass.
1893
Dec.8
(No 2)
  crushed to a jelly was intact. Apparently the Fox
had brought it from some distance but why had 
he taken this trouble since, evidently, he had not
cared to eat it. It had been dead several days at 
least.
  Crows were flying to & fro over the river at intervals
and one alighted on the ice within twenty yards or
less of the cabin and devoured some decayed apples
which I had thrown out. 
[margin]Crows[/margin]
  I dined alone in the cabin and at 3.30 P.M.
walked to Bensen's where the horse & sleigh met
me & took me back to town where I caught the
4.17 train for Cambridge.
  The river was completely frozen over at Ball's Hill
and nearly everywhere else save at the most rapid
stretches but the ice looked treacherous and I dared
not cross to W. Bedford. 
  I saw surprisingly few tracks in the woods & fields -
those of Gray Squirrels in two or three places, one of
a Red Squirrel, one of a Partridge, less than half a dozen
mouse trails and not one of a Rabbit. Can it be
that the Rabbits do not ramble about as much at this
season or have the Foxes caught them all? I [delete]should[/delete]
fully expected to find the snow braided all over with
their footprints in the Ball's Hill swamp bit it was
unmarked save by two Fox trails both leading straight
across. 
[margin]Scarcity of
tracks of
small mammals.[/margin]
[margin]No Rabbit tracks[/margin]