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— 1898 —
— July 2 —
— Concord, Mass. —
12 m.
Total
870 1/2 m.
Glorious warm day. Stayed at home this A.M.
with the exception of a wheel to the P.O.
& back, 2 m., for a Herald. Was rejoiced
at the Harvard victory in Base Ball 6-4
in N.Y. This gives Harvard the championship.
Went to the strawberry bed and saw the
pickers at work. Miss Hattie Buttrick packs
at the baskets as they are picked and brought
in in crates. A crate holds 32 baskets
or qts. To-day, 235 qts. were picked. They are
taken to Boston every night. A man calls
for them and starts for Boston at 11 P.M.
with his waggon, reaching the city at about
4 A.M. This P.M. I took a ride on my
wheel of 10 miles. I took the Sudbury Road
across Heath’s Bridge, through Nine Acre Corner
and went a mile beyond North St. going a little
beyond Cold Brook. Returned the same way.
Dan French called to-day. He entertained us
with an account of his great work on the
Statue of the Republic at the World’s Fair.
Mr. George Buttrick told me a good deal about
his experience during the Civil War on the
Red River Expedition in 1864. He saw the
5 gunboats of David D. Porter pass success-
fully through the Dam. It was interesting
to hear it through an eye-witness.

The vegetation here is just as I saw
it on my previous visits of 1886 & 7.
I don’t think there is very much that I
shall collect, and as I collected largely before
and on several occasions have taken
water plants from the river.