The Natural History of Selborne

Timothy appears, & flies come-out.

Timothy is gone under a tuft of long grass, but is not yet buried in the ground.

This dry fit has proved of vast advantage to the kingdom; & by drying & draining the fallows, will occasion the growing of wheat on many hundred of acres of wet, & flooded land, that were deemed to be in a desperate state, & incapable of being seeded this season.

Thomas started a hare, which lay in her form under a cabbage, in the midst of my garden.  It has begun to eat the tops of my pinks in many places.  The land-springs, which begin to appear, are much abated.