The Natural History of Selborne

Mrs Brown brought to bed of a boy, who added to 49 before, encreased my nephews & nieces to the round number of 50.

Stone-curlews pass over followed by their young, which make a piping, wailing noise.

Vast numbers of partidges.  A young fern-owl shot at Newton.

Bror Thos. sons & daughter come from Fyfield.

The shooters find many coveys, but not large ones. Not one wasp.

Young hirundines cluster on the dead boughs of the walnut tree.

Molly White & Nep. Tom rode to Fyfield.

Timothy the Tortoise, who has spent the two last months amidst the umbrageous forests of the asparagus-beds, begins now to be sensible of the chilly autumnal mornings; & therefore suns himself under the laruel-hedge, into which he retires at night.  He is become sluggish, & does not seem to take any food.

Nep. Ben White left us.

Much wheat carried.  The Ewel, & Pound-field thrown open.  Cool autumnal feel.  Nightingales seen in Honey-lane: they were the last that I observed.  Cut at one time 191 fine cucumbers.