Concord, Mass.
1912 
Nov. 24
[November 24, 1912]

Deer

  For the first time since their return to this part of 
Massachusetts there has just been an open season of one 
week on Deer in Middlesex County. It ended yesterday 
when I was told by my foreman Zephariah Prosser that 
two or three deer had been killed in Carlisle but none, 
so far as he could hear, in Concord. Apparently they have 
been almost if not quite as numerous about our place as 
during previous years. As twilight was falling on the evening of 
September 29th [September 29, 1912] I saw a noble buck with long spreading horns 
standing in the middle of the field just across the road from our 
farm house. On October 8th [October 8, 1912] five does were seen together in 
the orchard in front of our house. On October 18th [October 18, 1912] Henry W.
Henshaw & I saw one large & one small doe together, first at the 
foot of lane, afterwards in the run just beyond where they 
stood motionless for minutes gazing at us intently with their 
heads facing us squarely over their backs, their bodies facing the 
other way. On the evening of November 17th [November 17, 1912] Zeph. called us out to 
see a big doe in our flower garden. He had seen her a few minutes
before within 15 feet of the wood shed. Deer tracks were noticed everywhere 
about Ball's Hill and Pat [Pat Flannery] saw 2 does there on October 23 [October 23, 1912].