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Lake Umbagog.
Outlet Region.
1897
June 9
  Still another day of S.E. winds & gloomy skies
with heavy rain in the late afternoon and
evening.
  At 10 A.M. we warped the house boat out of
Leonard's Pond and attempted to beat down the
lake but the clumsy craft would not work up
against the light wind our casting anchor
and center board got entangled in sunken
snags and logs as we were crossing the flooded
marshes and at the end of the day we had
got only as far as Moll's Rock (about a mile)
where we cast anchor for the night. A Winter Wren.
Oven bird, Blackburnian Warbler, Usnea Warbler [delete]and[/delete]
Junco and Swainson's Thrush were the only birds
singing at evening on the neighboring shores.
[margin]Leonard's
Pond to
Moll's Rock[/margin]
  Our little Whistler was alive this morning but
has seemed feeble and depressed and as he would
eat practically nothing it was evident that we
could not hope to raise him. Accordingly we took
him into the flooded forest and putting him
on a piece of floating drift wood near the foot of
the tree in which he had been hatched backed the
boat off a few yards & left him at freedom. He
stood erect & motionless for a minute or two looking
about him; then entering the water he began swimming
[delete]about[/delete] at first slowly & [delete]evidently[/delete] in evident bewilderment.
But very soon he gained confidence and struck out
more boldly until at the end of a few minutes he
was darting hither & thither skimming the surface
[margin]The young
Whistler
set free near
the nest[/margin]