Marston's Mills - 1875
1875. Quail Shooting
Oct 19 [October 19, 1875] Clear and warm in A.M. Cloudy in P.M.
with heavy mist and E. [east] wind. Left Boston
on the 4 P.M. train yesterday afternoon with
Messrs. Melvin & H. Buttrick [Humphrey Buttrick], taking in
addition to "Shot" my old pointer "Dart."
Found Capt. Baxter and family well.
This morning we started out at about
8.30 and beat all the forenoon without
seeing a quail up to 11 o'clock when
Shot found a bevy of about 12 birds in
a briary thicket along an old fence. "Cap,"
Baxter's dog, backed him and both stood
until ordered on. As they rose I killed
right & left securing both birds. We afterwards
got three more in the pines where they
scattered, but no points as they all held their
scent. Leaving them we kept on along
the shore towards Osterville which 
place we had nearly reached when 
one of the dogs made another find in
the open and both the others backing him
all three drew down into a little hollow 
where they stood in line the two
pointers on the outside & my setter in
the middle. It was I think the finest
sight of the kind that I ever saw
but like all such, it was soon brought
to a [delete]close[/delete] end by the tumultuous, rushing
burst of a fine large bevy which
the next instant rose from the shelter
of a bed of weeds ahead of the dogs.
Eight barrels were discharged into
their midst almost simultaneously, and
there fell to the ground  - just one
bird. The whole bevy went off in