Marston's Mills - 1875
1875. Quail Shooting
(Oct. 20) [October 20, 1875] Cloudy in the morning: clear, warm
and lovely in the afternoon. Off
together at 9 A.M. striking E. [east] over
the same ground as yesterday.
In Goodspeeds field Jim [James C. Melvin] started
and killed a turtle dove. Near
the boat house swamp Shot next 
came to a fine point on a pair
of grouse at which I fired a double
shot as they rose just inside
the swamp, missing both birds.
At Parkers Shot roaded and found
the remnant of the bevy shot
into yesterday, and as, they rose
I fired a double shot into them
missing again a rather hard shot. 
Following them into the oaks they
gave out scent freely as was the
case yesterday and I killed one
and Buttrick another. Shot
also picked up a third which
was so stiff that we concluded it 
had been killed yesterday.
Eat [Ate] lunch in Mr. Hodges shop
and after a smoke set out
again and beat till 3 P.M. when
"Cap" ran into a very large bevy near
the Irishman Evan's field. Getting
them into a bad place we had poor 
success killing only four birds of which
I scored 2. Found nothing more
until sundown when we struck
into Goodspeeds fields and again
started the bevy which we shot
into last night. Shot first struck