Concord, Mass.
1902
March 21.
  Forenoon cloudy; afternoon clear; light N. wind.
Maximum temperature about 50 degrees.
  Took the 2.05 train for Concord getting
off at West Bedford where Gilbert met me. He 
had just seen 5 Meadow Larks in a flock in McGrath's field.
We crossed to Ball's hill in the large boat. The 
river has fallen a foot or more since Monday but
the water is still deep over the meadows. It was 
nearly calm this afternoon and the shores and
distant hills, softened by the faintest suggestion of 
haze, were very beautiful. The whole landscape,
indeed, wore a look of tenderness and peace most
soothing to the senses. There were no birds, however,
at least here. Nor did I see any about the cabins.
when we landed and spent half-an-hour. Gilbert
tells me he saw a Gull flying over the river this
forenoon.
  We walked to the farm. Bensen, whom we found
splitting wood, told me that he saw a
Deer in the road near the school house early this
morning as he was driving up with the milk. It
stood watching him for a moment and then leaped the
wall into Mrs. Ritchie's field. Bensen's dog followed 
and drove it into the Barrett woods. I found its
tracks (perfectly fresh looking) in the mud within twenty
yards of the school house. They were those of a
yearling animal &, I think, a doe. Christian Hansen
saw what was probably the same Deer in the road
about half-a-mile within the farm last Tuesday (18th).
He has heard that it has been in the Estabrook woods.
A deer at the farm.
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