
          1085.

Acquaintance and introduced <s>him</s> us to him.  We were very favorably
impressed with Mr. H. finding him quite a refined and intelligent man.
Mr. H. got out of the car in the town to await his buggy.  He invited
us to accompany him but we declined with thanks, for we wished
to-day to visit Chain's woods.  C's place is almost opposite Flood's
and adjoins the boat-club's grounds.  We reached the terminus at
9 o'clock.  In the car with us was Mr. F.[lood]  He seemed to be in quite
a depressed state of mind and soon learned that it was because
of the death of his mother.  We found him very much affected,
his resort was closed, the flags were at half-mast, the porches
were draped in black and on each door hung a long black crepe--
a dozen doors were in sight and so there were a dozen crepes.
Notwithstanding his grief, which seemed to be genuine, for he spoke
most kindly of his mother, it still was not deep enough, to cause
him to hide from view his immense diamond rings.  Mr. W. thought
they were worth $500 apiece (he has two), but he soon informed us that
he could get $3000 on them in  person, that the two rings and
a scarf pin, which he had not on were worth $5000.

We asked Mr. F. about the ferry to take us across the stream
to C's and he soon got us a man willing to row us across
        