Monday, June 14th. In the morning the clouds looked like rain. 

 We had breakfast shortly after eight and got started about 9.30. Just 

 before leaving the house Will and George and I were decidedly startled 

 by a section five feet square of the plastering falling with a great 

 crash within about ten feet from us. 



We gasped when the bill for our night's entertainment was pre- 

 was 



sented, as it considerably more than the bill at the Aspinwall. The 

 Place, however, had much of novelty and merit in it. The food was 

 excellently cooked and served, and the little stammering "buttons" was 

 decidedly interesting. 



At Springfield we telegraphed home and then went on to Ludlow 

 where we circled round through the buildings of the Ludlow Mfg. Co. and 

 then on through Palmer and Warren and the Brookfields to Leicester 

 which we reached at ten minutes of one. It was a hot morning but the 

 speed of the car made sufficient breeze to keep us perfectly comfort- 

 able, a thin overcoat being on the whole desirable. 



We had a good lunoh at Leicester. We left at about half past 

 two, and on the road passed Clark University and then we went on through 

 Shrewsbury and Northboro and diverging to southboro we stopped at the 

 Sudbury Dam where the water flowing over the spillway makes an 

 exceptionally beautiful waterfall. Here we were met by an engineer of 

 the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board who had been sent there by 

 Henry to meet us, and he opened the gate so that we were carried up to 

 the level of the top of the dam thus getting a fine teiew both from be- 

 low and above. After a half hour's stop we went on through Pramingham 

 to a point just East of the bridge crossing an arm of Oochituate Lake 

 and then diverged to Natick and South Natlck where we stopped to see 

 the famous Eliot oak which is supposed to have been there at the time 

 when Eliot was preaching to the Indians at that point somewhere about 

 1650. Then proceeding towards Boston we passed the several Hunnewell 



