341
Concord, Mass.
1897.
Nov. 20
(No 3)
for, coming straight up the corner of the river
from Carlisle Bridge, they did not, as usual, cut
across the land just below Davis's Hill but, on the 
contrary, merely passed Ball's Hill to the eastward
keeping on due south. It was perfectly obvious that
they discovered their mistakes at the precise moment
when they came to the sharp bed which the river
makes just below the cabin for at this point the
flock was for a moment thrown into confusion by
the sudden halting of its leaders. Then, after a chorus
of loud musical honks, they actually turned back 
and sweeping around the rear of Ball's Hill in 
a long curve resumed the path towards the south west
which migrating flocks of Geese always follow at 
this place in autumn. The following rough diagram
will make this interesting & suggestive episodes more 
plain.
[diagram]
  At about 2 P.M. I again heard geese honking but
did not get a sight at them. 