Lake Umbagog
Outlet Marshes
1896
September 12
(No 2)
  Just before sunset I paddled across the Lake and
after visiting the flats at the Outlet and finding nothing
there I landed at the little pond hole near Richardson's
Carry where I shot the Duck on the 7th. As I approached
the place I saw seven Black Ducks playing about in
the Lake close to the beach and I felt nearly sure that
they would return before dark. Soon after choosing my
stand in some tall grass I heard a Winter Yellowleg
whistling in the distance. I called him but although he
answered regularly he did not change his position for
ten minutes or more. He was evidently somewhere on the
Moose Point beach. At length he started & coming
directly towards me alighted in the pond when I shot
him sitting.
[margin]Evening in
the Outlet
Marshes[/margin]
[margin]Black Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Gr. Yellowlegs
shot[/margin]
  Soon after this I heard the Ducks alight on the Lake
several hundred yards away. They quacked & splashed
for a long time but finally swam in nearly to within
shot & then rising & circling came over the pond
directly past me within thirty yards. Just as I rose
to fire four of them swung together & I felt sure
of getting at least three with my first barrel but
to my infinite disgust none fell at the spot & 
my second shot was equally ineffectual. I think
that on changing my shells for the Yellowleg - or rather
when I changed them a second time after shooting him
I got in two dust[?] shot cartridges by mistake.
[margin] Gr. Yellow legs
shot.[/margin]
[margin]Black Ducks[/margin]
[margin]A good shot
missed[/margin]
  I heard two Snipes & saw several Herons.
  Mosquitos were nearly as numerous on the marsh
This evening as they were last June. They attacked
me so savagely that I could hardly endure it. The
evening was very warm & close.
[margin]Mosquitos
troublesome[/margin]