Concord Mass. [Concord, Massachusetts]
Mass. [Middlesex Co.) [Massachusetts, Middlesex County] 1874
Sept. 25 [September 25, 1874] Clear and as hot as in August.
I had intended going home this
morning but the weather continuing
so fine we decided upon another hunt
so took the 7.50 train for W. Bedford [West Bedford] 
and beat the whole of the E. Concord [East Concord]
ground. Put up 4 cock and 7 grouse 
I bagged one of the former & Jim [James C. Melvin] [bagged 1] of the 
latter. Several of the cock left behind
yesterday were gone to day which
confirms my friends hypothesis that the
birds came on "a flight". On Dam meadow
I started a [female] quail which by her actions
led me to suspect that she had either
eggs or young in the vicinity and on
"the schoolhouse ground" the dogs
after roading for some time started
a pair of old quail. The [female] ran along
in front of "Dodge" rising and flying
a few yards at a time until M. [Melvin] no
longer able to resist the temptation, shot
her, and I fired at the cock supposing
them young birds & part of a bevy
which M. had seen near there. A few
moments later the old dog pointed again
and our remorse can only be imagined 
when we found under his very nose
a brood of young, birds not larger than
field mice. However as I luckily
made a clean miss on the cock we
had good hopes that he would attend 
to them. While taking our dinner in
a cool maple grove by a brook a
large hawk (which with some hesitancy
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