page [121] 7 Sept 1901 (seq. 123)

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Elms, Wells, Me.
1901
Sept. 7

A clear beautiful but very warm day.

This morning I sat on the piazza part of
the morning reading and later I drove to
the beach with Margaret & M. Margaret went
in bathing. We drove to the mouth of the
river where the Gulls were sitting on the
sand close to the beaches and got very
near before they started up. The surf was
very fine, the wind being on shore, and we
drove in the other direction to the mouth of
the Webhannet River, all over the hard
clean, broad beach. The rollers were
tumbling in one after another and the sea
all of a foam. Only yesterday morning a
Mr. Bragoon was drowned while attempting
to row over the bar with two boys, in a
dory. The bar is very shallow at the mouth
of the Webhannet River at low tide and when
there is a heavy sea outside the rollers are
very high & dangerous, while it is perfectly smooth
just inside. The dory filled, Mr. Bragoon was
drowned, but the two boys clung to the upturned boat
and drifted 1 half a mile for one hour before
reaching shore. I talked with one of them do-day.
Bragoon leaves a widow & 5 children, poor.

Speyeria idalia
This afternoon I strolled over the pasture in front
of the house. Saw one tattered idalia. Philodice
was abundant, nyrma & bellona & tharos were here
& there and hypophleas was occasionally seen.
The Gulls were at the river mouth. I counted 200.
Saw Kingfisher fishing. Observed the planets tonight
Jupiter was thus [drawing]: ∅ ⬤ ⬤ ⬤