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[[underlined]] Dec. 12 [[/underlined]], I got 8 Ochetodons, 2 Dipodomys, a Thomomys, & Mus musculus.
Nelson got 19 Ochetodons & 6 Dipodomys.
Went to traps early, worked till after noon on skins.  Spent some time looking around. Henry came in afternoon & we got supplies & went down to the river & camped below the bridge on the west bank. A cool morning 25[[degree symbol]] at daybreak, Clear & pleasant. 

[[underlined]] Dec. 13. [[/underlined]]  Took [[strikethrough]] up [[/strikethrough]] a tramp a couple of miles up river before breakfast. Found it brushy along river flats, willows on banks & tetr[[insertion]] a [[/insertion]]dymia [[tetradymia]] on dry parts of it. Soft grass & Ryegrass on flats. banks about 50 feet high, sandy & bunches of grease brush on high land. 

Dykeman & I went up to town & got the horse & buckboard & fixed things up. 
Dykiman staid to have Odometer set on buckboard & some other fixing.
I came back to camp & put up skins.
Set a few traps in P.M.
Henry killed a Cottontail Rabbit & set some traps -
Clear, 23 [[degree symbol]] at daylight. A pleasant day 
Nelson worked most all day at his skins
Set traps late in P.M.

Transcription Notes:
tetradymia is correct so deleted [sp?]. 9/5/17 Finished transcription. -@siobhanleachman a few minor edits -@meg_shuler