Concord, Mass.
1909
March 25
(No 3)
and Musk rat hunter as I well remember
for I often used to meet & talk with him on the
river in the 70's) fishing for minnows for bait
with a short, heavy, oak whip stock which he
was using as a rod. The Otter, coming up from
a dive, broke the surface of the water so 
near him that he caught it by the tail just 
as it was disappearing again and quickly
killed it with his whip stock by a few blows
on the head. At least this is Richardson's story.
He says Ned Nealy skinned the animal and
will probably be able to tell me all about
it. Richardson does not remember ever hearing
of the one I reported in my "Science" article as
killed in winter in deep snow in Nine Acre Corner
but John Hardy was familiar with the story
at the time it was current in Concord & said so to me a few weeks ago.