The Natural History of Selborne

Fern-owl, & chur-worm jar.  Men wash their fatting sheep; & bay the stream to catch trouts.  Trouts come up our shallow streams almost to the spring-heads to lay their spawn.

Flowers smell well this evening:  some dew.

Cinamon-roses blow.

The race of field-crickets, which burrowed in the short Lythe, & used to make such an agreeable, shrilling noise the summer long,  seems to be extinct.  The boys, I believe, found the method of probing their holes with the stalks of grasses, & so fetched them out, & destroyed them.

Bantam-hen brings out four chickens.

Garden red valerian blows: where it sows itself soon becomes white.

Finished sowing kidney-beans, having used one quart, which makes five rows, half white & half scarlet.

Mole-cricket jars.  An old hunting mare, which ran on the common, being taken very ill, came down into the village as it were to implore the help of men, & dyed the night following in the street.

Ophrys nidus avis blows in Comb-wood.  Rain is wanted.  Wheat looks yellow.

Brother Thomas White came.