The Natural History of Selborne

Taw & hop-scotch come in fashion among the boys.

A couple of woodcocks were given me.

Bror. Thomas left us, & went to London.

Second Bantham pullet lays.  Cucumbers sprout.

Received a brace of pheasants from Woodhouse farm.

Tubbed half an hog, weighing 8 score: put half a bush. of salt, & two ounces of salt petre.  The pork was well trod into the tub, & nicely stowed.

Rover sprung two brace of pheasants in the long coppice.

Several slow-worms found under the bottom of an old hay-rick in a torpid state, but not without some motion.

Snow still lies a yard deep at Stair’s hill.

Salt-fish proves good.  The Creeper, certhia familiaris, appears in my orchard, & runs up the trees like a mouse.  Golden-crowned wren is also seen.