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Englewood, N.J. 
1897
June 28.
  A beautiful June day, cloudless with fresh W. wind. To
Englewood, N.J. by 10 A.M. Shore Line train for New York and
4.30 P.M. train from New York, Chapman meeting me at West
Shore Ferry. Walked from W. Englewood station to Chapman's
house where, some ten minutes after our arrival, John But-
roughs joined us. He wore a plain but well-fitting suit with
blue flannel, a soft light-grey felt hat, white shirt with
black shoe-string tie, and broad low shoes. He had been walk-
ing for upwards of three hours - having passed directly by Chap-
man's house and on to Englewood village a distance of two
miles and back - and confessed to being somewhat tired but he
talked freely enough as we sat for an hour or more under the 
trees in front of the house.
  After dinner we walked through the Phelps woods east of
the railroad station. The sun had set some time before we
started and twilight was falling when we entered the woods.
Indeed most of the birds had ceased singing but the Wood
Thrushes, which we had especially come to hear, did not disap-
point us. To my surprise they were everywhere equalled in
numbers and in places actually outnumbered by the Wilson's
Thrushes. Such a concert as the two gave us! I have never
before heard anything that approached it. The still, damp
fragrant air that filled the arches under the fine old trees
fairly rang with the bell-and flute-like notes which came