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Mon 7 Mar. 98 warmer. woods all day Chas. & I finish big beech Robin Meadow Lark Bluebird Tues. 8 warmer. road getting very bad. [in margin] * We begin going without breakfast by vote of family. woods all day. tough elm tree. Robins Meadow Larks Bluebirds Song Sparrow Killdeers On way home went to Hill Lot & dug Salsify & Parsnips Marion taught Miss Sears' classes in H.S. today Wed. 9 warmer springy woods all day. Hensons were after a squirrell. Robins numerous Meadow Lark. Bluebirds Song sparrows Killdeers. Saw a small flock 25 Crow- Blackbirds flying over towards east. Eve. started for Lake Ave. but too muddy. Thurs. 10 Warm springy. Woods all day. Examinations at School. Fri. 11. Eli not in School. did not have to take exams. Chas. Eli & I to woods in a.m. in p.m. a little rainy & we went to Georges, got tools sharpened & sawed logs at his door yard. 5 Wild Ducks circled around the pond several times & then went off. heard Blackbirds Sat. 12 a.m. Chas. Eli. Geo. & I to woods. p.m. Chas Eli & I walked up to woods. more rain, rain considerable at night.