8th.
I past the greater part of the day in gunning,1 with my brothers. The weather was as it has been for several days past extremely warm; and the fruits of the earth at present greatly require heat.
1. “Shooting robins” (D/JQA/13, Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 16).

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