The Natural History of Selborne

No baking pears.  Gathered-in medlars.  Dug up carrots, a good crop, but small in size.  THe tortoise not only gets into the sun under the fruit-wall; but he tilts one edge of his shell against the wall, so as to incline his back ot it’s rays: by which contrivance he obtains more heat than if he lay in his natural position.  And yet this poor reptile has never read, that planes inclining to the horizon receive more heat from the sun than any other elevation!  At four P.M. he retires to bed under the broad foliage of a holyhock.  He has ceased to eat for some time.