
          1042.

* The Weather Bureau had predicted fair weather and colder.

it stopped raining and the rest of the day it was only cloudy.  At
Avalon we crossed the river, here several little birds were heard.  The railroad
watchman said they were wrens.  He said he called them weather-birds
for when they fly in the tree-tops it is clear, but when they fly close to
the ground it rains.  The watchman's box is only a recent improvement.
From A. we proceeded to Patapsco and then along Stony Run.  We
hoped to find Skunk Cabbage, but it soon became too dark to
go onward so we decided to return to P.  This we did and here
we awaited the train.  We took the train to London Park and there
<s>we took</s> the car for home.  I arrived home at 7 P.M.

515.
January 23, 1904.  Again with Mr. W and Mr. F.  We met at the terminus
of the Wilkins Av. electric line.  It* was raining and continued to do so
more or less till noon, during the remainder of the day it was
cloudy.  There has been quite a change in the temperature.  For weeks
we have been having freezing weather, the thermometer seldom rising even
to freezing point.  On Thursday, however, it became quite warm, the wind
blowing from the east and south-east, and cloudy,  Yesterday it was still
warmer, the thermometer went up to 58°.  With the warm weather came fog and
plenty of rain.  The ground being frozen, the rain did not sink into it, but
ran off flooding the streams.  We hoped to-day to go to the persimmons
        