The Natural History of Selborne

Finished plowing-up the Ewel-close, a wheat-stubble, to prepare it for barley, & grass-seeds it must be plowed thrice.  The ground is pretty dry, but tough & heavy, requiring naturally much meliorating.  This week Wolmer-pond was fished; & out of it was taken, an eye-witness tells me, a pike that weighed 30 pounds.