CONCORD. 
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1892 
April 20 
Drove to Rhodora pool on the Estabrook road at 
9.30 A.M. and spent an hour or more digging some of the 
Rhodora bushes to take to Ball’s Hill. 1A solitary Vireo 
was singing by spells in the woods near the pool. Sent 
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George to Ball’s Hill and struck through the woods on foot 
to a wood-road north of Punkatassett Hill where I noticed 
some young Black Birches last autumn. Dug up about thirty. 
Several Golden-crests and two Creepers (Certhia) were in 
the pines near me.~j 
Returned to the Buttrick’s by the shortest route 
across the fields, ]__carrying the rather heavy bundle of 
birches on my back.'] As I came out of the bushes on the 
Fox abroad 
edge of Pratts’ nursery I saw a Fox standing on the crest 
at noonday 
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of a knoll in the open field not 100 yardsoff, although 
it was mid-day and the sun shining clear and hot. The Fox 
was a very large one. He looked faded and worn as to fur 
and appeared to be of a bleached yellowish color, tail and 
all. He saw me at once, pricked his ears and looked at 
me steadily, standing cjiite still with brush lowered, I 
squeaked and he started directly towards me at a qpick 
skulking trot. When he dipped out of sight in a hollow I . 
squatted, but he did not come out in sight again on my side 
of the hollow; the next instant I caught sight of him 200 yards 
