Concord, Mass.
1911.
Oct. 3
(No 4)
[October 3, 1911]

the station at West Bedford. On the day before this
I found tracks on the top of Ball's Hill and at
the farm for the first time this autumn.
When I got here on the 12th Sept. [September 12, 1911] I could not
learn that anyone had seen deer - or tracks
even - for a month of more previously.

Muskrats.

  During my paddle down river this evening
I saw three Muskrats, the first that have came
under my notice this autumn. Pat Flannery
says that they are very scarce in the river
as far as he has been able to learn.