Marston's Mills - 1875 Quail Shooting Oct. 19 Clear and warm in A.M. Cloudy in P.M. with many mist and E. wind. Left Boston on the 4 P.M. train yesterday afternoon with Messrs. Melvin & H. Buttrick, taking in addition to "Shot" my old pointer "Dart". Found Capt. Baytu and family well. This morning we started out at about 8.30 and beat all the forenoon without seeing a quail up to 11 o'clock when Shot found a bevy of about 12 birds in a briary thicket along an old fever. "Cap" Baytu's dog backed him and both stood until ordered on. As they rise I killed right & left securing both birds. We after ward got three more in the pines when they scattered, but no points as they held their cent, leaving them we kept on along the shore towards Otterville which place we had nearly reached when one of the dogs made another find in the loper and both the others backing him all three drew down into a little hollow when they stood in line the two pointers on the outside & my setter in the middle. It was I think the first fight of the kind that we saw but like all such it was soon brought to a close end by the tumultuous crashing burst of a fine large bevy which the next instant rose from the shelve of a bed of woods ahead of the dogs. Eight barrels were discharged into their midst almost simultaneously, and then fell to the ground - just one bird. The whole bevy went off in