The Natural History of Selborne

When the servants are gone to bed, the kitchen-hearth swarms with minute crickets not so big as fleas.  The Blattae are almost subdued by the persevering assiduity of Mrs J. W. who waged war with them for many months, & destroyed thousands: at first she killed some hundreds every night.  The thermometer at George’s fields Surrey 82: on the 21, — 51.  St foin fly, sphynx filipendulae, appears.