"the whole day in packing our birds &c. In the P.M. Gordin took 8 half pound trout in th prr & caught 2. Sept. 19 Blondy with thick fog all day. Left the lake at 5.30 this morning on the stage, Clark driving as usual, P. & S. both accompanied me. At Brook's town when we stopped a few moments I heard a Hylotomus filicatus and in Newry we passed a partridge sitting in a poplar sapling so near the stage that I was almost tempted to grasp at her with my hand. As we Guard Bethel one of the horses which had for sometime shown signs of weariness gave out completely and after staggering on for a few rods drawing his limbs ridiculous from one side of the road to the other, he stopped leaning heavily against the side of a bridge with drooping head & tail & general expression of the most total despair. Leaving him on the post we drove in with the remaining three horses. The down train was no usual one an hour late and we barely made the necessary connection at Portland, Arrived in Boston at 7.30 & found Charles on hand, and by 8.30 we reached home bag & baggage.