Concord, Mass.
1914
March 17 
to
May 31
(No 16)

Fairy Shrimp

  In the days of my early youth a deep hollow in Dr. Wyman's
place on Sparks St., Cambridge, always abounded, when filled
with water by rain & melting snow in April, with aquatic
creatures of wondrous form & hues which we boys used to dip up
& take home in preserve jars or similar glass receptacles. They were a 
scant inch in length, as I remember them, and swam on their backs
by means of delicate & numerous plume-like filaments waving rythmically [rhythmically]
Some were salmon, others pinkish, still others almost rose colored.
I have never seen anything like them since until this spring when
Mr. Dexter informed me that he was accustomed to finding
them near Providence & that Harry Richardson knew of a pond hole
near Fairhaven Bay where they occur. We intended to look for
them there but having no good opportunity sought & found them
abundantly in two pools behind Ball's Hill. All we examined here,
however, were dull olive green. Edward Emerson thinks this their
normal color but Dexter has seen pink & rosy- tinted ones like