The Natural History of Selborne

Slipped-out the artichokes, & earthed them up.  Mrs Yalden left us.

Mrs Yalden came.  Many pairs of daws build in the church: but they have placed their nests so high up between the shingles, & the ceiling, that ye boys cannot come at them. These birds go forth to feed at 1/2 hours after four in the morning.

Dandelions are going out of bloom; & now the pastures look yellow with the Ranunculus bulbosus, butter cups.

Timothy Turner’s Bantham sow brings 20 pigs, some of which she trod-on, & overlaid; so that they were soon reduced to 13.  She has but 12 teats.  Before she farrowed her belly swept on the ground.

Timothy began to march about at 5 in the morning.

The wind beats the buds off the trees, & blows the cabbages out of the ground.  The planet Venus appears.  On this day my niece Clement was brought to bed of her fifth child, a boy, who makes my 44th nephew, & niece, all now living.

The water-ouzel is living, & recovered of its wound.

The grass is long enough to wave before the wind.  Wheat turns some what yellow.

Timothy, contrary to his usual practice, lies out all day in the rain.

Plolyanths make a fine show.  Pastures yellow with bloom of dandelion, & with cowslips.