1892
June 12
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. -A perfect June day, clear, warm with fresh
  W. wind. 

[margin]Up the Assabet[/margin]

    At daybreak this morning as I lay in bed at
  the Buttrick's I heard a Bludbird singing  purely,
  a Lanager which was apparently in the [?] in
  front on the house, and a Chestnut-sided Warbler
  spent most of the day in the house writing but at 5
  p.m. took my canoe and paddled up the
  Assabet to a little beyond the hemlocks where
  I met Richardson and floated slowly back
  with him, talking.
[margin]Up the Assabet.[/margin]
    As we were thus engaged a Grey Squirrel came
  down the bank to the waters edge where finding
  something edible it sat erect on its hind legs
  turning the object which looked like a cluster of
  seed vessels of some plant) rapidly between its fore
  paws as it eat.[?ate]  We could distinctly hear the
  firm grating sound of its teeth at a distance
  of 20 yds. [yards]  Presently another of these squirrels
  appeared running down the trunk of a tree and
  then flattening itself against the back, head down
  and shortly afterwards we saw a third. All were
  young of this year but slightly if at all larger
  than Red Squirrels but with very much larger
  tails. They were very tame, hardly noticing us
  as far as I could discover.
[margin]
Young
Grey Squirrels[/margin]

    Two Redstarts, A Wood [?], a Robin, and
  several Song Sparrows were singing in near the
  hemlocks; just above Red bridge a Savanna
  Sparrows, &[and] Bobolinks. Martins flying about.
  The Assabet was covered with sawdust giving the 
  dark, smooth water the appearance of [?] [?]