1894 good condition after retrieving, but didn't stuff it. Flew from orchard washouse oak into oak e. of music rooms where I shot it now its way grabbed at a Fairdawn woodpecker on cherry tree scared the female [illegible] w. to poplars where I took a long shot with choke bbl. I didn't get it. Nov. 11 Saw her 2 days on S. side orchard by my road & she flew to locusts on High St. but I got in good range. fired 9 shells, 8 @ quail, a big band in smiths- oak- on- fence locust Host 2 got 2. 1 of lost ran into Palmers, Lynn showed me where but dog wildnt work in black berry plants. Note larks back my house but wild. Caught a high one & brought him down dead. Last night 6 shots at quail on wing no success til last 2 shots @ 1 flock in squash by meadow, worked up on them instead of down toward orchard like past twice & got 11st bbl 7-2 with