The great rains do not influence our wells in the least. Niece Betsey returned to Fyfield. On this day Miss Mary Haggitt of Rushton, Northamptonshire, by being married to my Nephew Sam Barker, encreased the number of my nephews & nieces to 47.
On this day an woodcock was seen in a coppice at Froyle. Gathered-in the Royal-russets, & knobbed russets; the former are fine shewy apples. There is a good crop of each sort.
Gathered-in the apples called dearlings, which keep well, & are valuable kitchen apples. My only tree of the sort stands in the meadow, & produced ten bushels of fruit. Apples this year have sold at 8s per bushel: so had the price continued the produce would be worth four pounds. Next year probably there will be no crop; because I do not remember to have seen this tree bear two years following.
About Octobr 1, the weather was cold & wet at Vevey, in Switzerland; when the Hirundines flew so near the ground as to be a prey to cats, which watched for them; & some entered mens windows so tame & hungry as to sit on a finger, & take flies when offered to them, or which they saw on the glass or walls.
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