Dec. 29 - 1874. Started into the woods. Hunted all day and in company until noon, when R. N. & myself became apart from the others. Traveled altogether about 20 grams and I bagged 1 the only bird killed by the party. They were unusually wild and as a rule gave us but poor chance through some good shots and missed. J. Nesbit & Cobb bagged from 3 rabbits and a gray squirrel. Our beat lay through a very wild country and on, quite into mud, abounding in large tracts of many white pine timber and dead thickets of scrub or pitch pine, saw a few flocks of Agelastus leucurus. One Pierce villous a pair of Edolopis & 5 blue jays. Reached home by 6 P.M. bags, W.B. Grooms 1. Dec. 30 Clear and cold this falling steadily all day. Wind rose early in the morning and blew furiously till the P.M., Rose at 8 1/2 A.M. and took the 6:15 to Concord Junction station. I met Jim M. and W. Buttrick by appointment. George Deider was to come up on the express hour later but as he did not meet in an apparance we took a way train on the Nashua & Acton and getting off at Bobbins Mills brat back to Concord by way of