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Lakeside to Bethel
1898.
September 29
 Clear and very warm with S. wind.
[margin]Lakeside to 
Bethel[/margin]
 The Melvins, Mr. Baker & I left Lakeside
this morning by Davis's stage and drove
to Bethel where I stopped to pay a brief visit
at the Gehrings' while the rest of the party
pushed through to Boston.
 The drive down was delightful. The foliage about
the Lake has only just begun to turn but
in the notch and below we saw much rich and
some really brilliant coloring.
 In Thale Brown's meadow in Grafton two large
Foxes were engaged in catching grasshoppers behaving
in a very curious manner first nosing about in
the grass & then leaping suddenly forward. We
stopped & watched them for several minutes.
[margin]Foxes catching
grasshoppers.[/margin]
  Birds were numerous. I saw a flock of four
or five young White-crowned Sparrows in Upton,
no less than three flocks of Bluebirds (with 8, 4 
& 2 birds respectively) in Newry and all along
the road great flocks of Chipping Sparrows &
scattering Robins Flickers etc. In Grafton three
Partridges flew from the roadside into the
woods. Titlarks & a Horned Lark were
heard piping in a ploughed field near
Thale Brown's.
[margin]White crown
Sparrows
Bluebirds[/margin]
[margin]Patridges
Horned Larks]/margin]