Concord, Mass.
1900.
August 5
(No 3)
  Herbert Holden, who called at the cabin this morning, tells
me that the Porcupine which Mason Wheeler killed this
month (cf journal entry under date July 23rd) was in a
field of English grass near the edge of Fifty Acre Meadow. Wheeler
was driving a mowing machine at the time (about sunset)
and seeing the grass violently agitated just ahead of his
house stopped there and alighting found and killed the
poor animal which was doing its best to escape. Wheeler
told Holden that a farmer in Carlisle killed a Porcupine
in that town about thirty years ago but that none
have been seen since. The story that Wheeler found
two together & that one of them escaped is, according
to both Holden & Davis, without foundation.
Further note
on the
Porcupine
killed near
Bateman's
Pond
  Holden further said that Quail are more numerous
about Concord this season than they have been for
many years. He has heard them whistling in
many places east of the town especially along the
Virginia road & about Dam meadow.
Quail
abundant
this year.
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