The Natural History of Selborne

Young swallows appear.  Cocked the hay in large cocks.  No kindly, regular dews all the summer; so that the walks and grass-plots were seldom well-mowed.

Cut the slip and part of the mead.  Elder in full bloom.

Ricked 6 jobbs of meadow hay in curious order, and added the St foin to it.

Cut part of the mead: a good crop.  Young goldfinches.

Nothing grows in the garden.

Ricked in two summer-cocks five jobbs of St foin in most curious order.  Young martins hatched.  Apples, & pears but few.  Titlark whistles still.

Phallus impudicus olet.  Showers about.

Rain-b0w. Rock-like clouds.  Sweet evening.  Moonshine.

Cut my St. foin.

Dark & cold, sun, clouds.