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Concord, Mass.
1898.
Nov. 28
  Clear with strong, cold N. wind. The snow melted a good
deal on sheltered sunny slopes like that near the cabin but
on the open fields it drifted incessantly before the high wind.
  As our stock of firewood and provisions had run low
and as there seemed no hope that the woods would be 
again accessible for sometime to come we decided, early this
morning, to return to Cambridge. This was not accomplished 
without much difficulty & labor. It took Bensen the 
entire forenoon to break a road to the cabin and the
road from his house to the village was barely practicable
for the broad, heavy wood sled on which he took us
and our effects in the early afternoon. The drifts were
six or eight feet deep in many places and between Petersen's
and the top of Punkatassett [sic] [Punkatasset] Hill they filled the road from
wall to wall and we were obliged to take to the fields
where the wind had blown the snow away. We left Concord
at 4.26 P.M. but our train was held at Bedford for nearly
six hours and finding that it would be nearly midnight
before I could get home I went into Boston & spent the
night at the Parker House.
  A Robin and six Chickadees came about the cabin in
the forenoon. On the way to Concord we saw a Blue Jay
(near Holden's) and two flocks of Crows one containing
five, the other six birds. I also heard a Brown Creeper
near the Marsh.