24 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1874. another bury of about a dozen birds I pointed them handsomely in the open Stubble. I made a clean double shot as they rose, & killed 2 more in the corn, N. also got two from them making a total of 8 Quail, 6 of which went to my bag. The old dog worked very handsomely and pointed every bird steadily, saw numbers of Aeg. Phasia & C. Spurus. Oct. 23 Clear and a lovely day, took the 11.50 train for W. Bedford and striking out to Dan Meadow beat through all the Woodcock ground to Concord when I took the 6.35 train home). On Dan Meadow Shot Band up 2 cock which were lying literally within a yard of each other though the second bird did not rise until the first had been retrieved, I bagged both of them in two shots. In the Alder hedge I met Humph. Butterick with a Mr. Barrett from Boston, they had started only 2 cock and had killed 409 quail & grouse. Finding that they had beaten nearly all the best ground I saw through the remainder very hastily without even a feather. When near Concord house I came across a little artificial trout pond in the woods, and approaching it cautiously I surprised a pair of wood chucks feeding under the shore and after watching them for some time killed both with one shot. They now in a remarkably play fit