Concord, Mass.
1910.
June 25
(No 5)
[June 25, 1910]

Observations on the Kicker

position a distance of fifteen or twenty yards
while we were listening to him. He seemed to be
at first in a bed of pickerel weed at the entrance
to the canal, afterwards further back among
the grass. The entire meadow where these
Kickers were heard is flooded (and has been
for the past week or more) to a depth of from
six to twelve inches, the grass rising above the
water (and concealing it perfectly) to a height of
from one to two or three feet.
  Faxon & Tyler left me at 10 P.M. to return to
Lexington. After sculling back across the river I
landed at our boat pit and was standing there
talking with Harry, with a big lantern on the
ground between us casting a brilliant light around
when, to my very great astonishment, a Kicker began