The Natural History of Selborne

Showers all day, with hail, & wind.  The ground is pretty well moistened.

Field crickets shrill.  Snipes in the forest.  The forest quite burnt-up.  Small reed-sparrow sings.  Young ring-doves fledge.  Hay is risen to four pounds per ton: no grass in the fields, & great distress among the cattle.

Some missle-thrushes on the down above us: blackbirds and thrushes mostly destroyed.

The grass still crips with white frost.  Tulips hang their heads in the morning, being pricked with the frost.