1892.
Oct. 31
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. - Clear with warm but very damp & chilly S. W.
wind.
  Shooting all day starting at 9 a.m. Beat the
Parker Lot, Wadley's Run, Schuln's Flat & Woodcock Hole
grounds in the forenoon seeing absolutely nothing
except one Woodcock which Don found in the "Woodcock
Hole" & which I killed at the first rise.
  After lunch drove to Rose Hill (in Corlish) and
hunted a large extent of country for Partridges.
Started only two & missed a difficult shot at one of them.
Returning by road a mile or more I finished the 
afternoon by beating a large tract of birches on a
hill. This was where I saw the Woodcock on the
ground on the 22nd. I found nothing today until
I was on my way back to the buggy when Don
ran down into a gully filled with alders with
a spring near its head. I whistled & called but he
would not come. On going to the edge I saw him
pointing. Working around to the other side I
moved cautiously on when a Partridge, followed
quickly by three others, sprang from some bushes
growing along a wall. I fired my first barrel at
a red-tailed bird going straight away, the second
at a gray bird quartering to the right & brought
both down, the first double shot I have ever
succeeded in making at Partridges. Both birds
were hens & both were dead when I got to
them although they made a tremendous fluttering
& thumping when they first fell. I was wholly
satisfied & did not follow the two survivors.