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crushed to a jelly was intact. Apparently the Fox had 
brought it from some distance but why had he taken this 
trouble since, evidently, he had not cared to eat it. It 
had been dead severa.1 days,at least. 
Crows 
[crows were flying to and fro over the river at 
intervals and one alighted on the ice within twenty yards 
or less of the cabin and devoured some decayed apples which 
i had thrown out. 
I dined alone in the cabin and at 3.30 P* M. walked 
to Rensen’s where the horse and sleigh met me and took me 
back to town where I caught the 4.1? train for Cambridge. 
The river was completely frozen over at Ball’s 
Hill and nearly everywhere else save at the most rapid 
stretches but the ice looked treacherous and I dared not 
cross to West Bedford^] 
Scarcity 
I saw surprisingly few tracks in the woods and 
of tracks 
fields ■— those of Gray Squirrels in two or three places, 
of 
one of a Red Squirrel, one of a Partridge, less than half 
small 
a dozen Mouse trails and not one of a Rabbit. Can it 
animals 
be that the Rabbits do not ramble about as much at this 
season or have the Foxes caught them all? I fully 
No Rabbit 
expected to find the snow braided all over with their foot- 
tracks 
A 
prints in the Ball’s Hill swamp but it was unmarked save 
by two Fox trails, both leading straight across. 
