Bethel, Maine
1912.
January 4
[January 4, 1912]

  Another brilliantly clear and very delightful winter day
somewhat colder than yesterday, equally windless through the
entire forenoon but with a chill easterly breeze blowing after 4 P.M.
  Donning our snow-shoes not long after breakfast Dr. Gehring and
I spent the most of the morning in the Glen Woods following the
old trails made years ago whereas yesterday we kept chiefly
to a path leading more to the eastward and cut during this
past month to give access to some woods which the doctor has
recently bought and which lie in that direction. As last
night was calm and clear with a full moon shining brightly
we expected to find that many nocturnal mammals had
been abroad but the signs of their recent wanderings were
far more numerous and widespread than we had anticipated.
There was indeed scarce a square yard of snow throughout
the woods we traversed which was not marked with
the footprints of Rabbits and in many places they had