The Natural History of Selborne

The elders, water-elders, fox-gloves, & other soltitial plants begin to be in bloom. Blue dragon-flies appear. Cucumbers, which had stopped for a time, bear again.

* My favorite old Galloway, who is touched in his wind, was allowed to taste no water for 21 days; by which means his infirmity grew much less troublesome. He was turned to grass every night, and becaome fat & hearty, and moved with ease. During this abstinence he staled less than usual, & his dung was harder & dryer than usually fall from grass-horses. After refraining from a while he shewed little propensity for drink. A good lesson this to people, who by perpetual guzzling create a perpetual thirst. When permitted to drink he shewed no eagerness for water.