Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1949

278th day- 87 days follow

Fair + Warmer

We worked on the brush all day.

The World Series started today and the Brooklyn Dodgers lost by one run in the end of the ninth inning.

George, Eleanor, and the two kids came in for a few minutes after supper.

I had a postal from Mrs. Hornblower from M.V.  She is having a fine time surf fishing.

Jubbie and I found a box turtle on the front drive, across from Dutton’s garage.

It had no initials on the under shell.

When I worked for Wm. H. Finney I used to mow off his cow pasture each summer, and when I found a box turtle I cut my initials and the year on its under shell. If I found it the next year I put on a symbol such as (he drew a square, cross, red cross, triangle). Two turtles I found for six years in succession.

Carl Bolt found one of them on the golf links over 20 years after I marked it, about ½ mile from where I had always found it.