Concord, Massachusetts 47 1872. Feb. 22. a through the woods due North till we came in sight of the town of Carle[illegible]: then striking West about north or West across our friends again in fifty acre meadow we having killed each a Grouse and thus can do with the rabbit. Jim now took the lead and brought us shortly into a perfect paradisi for game: rabbits continually hopping up and Partridges thick as I ever saw them before. Charlie & I fired about an equal number of times but my chances abjured better and accordingly my misses were more inexcusable: by 2 P.M. I had fired all my cartridges killing a Grouse with my last shot. Mr. Harley being now completely tired out, lent us his Gaus (or loader) hand Jim and I struck obliquely for broom while he and Charlie took the straight road for Concord. I fired three more shots but did not kill with either. We crossed the river to Woods hill, then finding to find anything there, shouldered our guns and got into C. by 4:30 P.M. after a very hard day's tramp. She bag was: E. Castust, Rabbits 3, Grouse 1, Geese 2, J. C. Malvin, Grouse 1, Rabbit 1, S. Farley, Rabbit 2. W. Burritt, Grouse 2, Rabbits 3. Total Grouse 4, Rabbits 9, Squirrel 1. I found in all twenty-eight shots & Charlie more or less anyway. We started by actual count forty Grouse and even more than half as many Rabbits. The walking in the woods was very bad in many places the snow being six to eight inches deep with a thick crust. In the open meadows the ground was much bare. For birds I saw several flocks of Cyanusca cris. (as one of them a Coptes aratus).