The Natural History of Selborne

Wheat comes up well.  Lavants seem to abate.

Gnats appear much, & some flies.  A dry, mild season.

French-beans are planted in the hot-house at Hartley.  Pines are still  cutting.

Rooks feed earnestly in ye stubbles.  Red-breast sings.

Rain & wind all night.  Toad appears crawling.

Wren sings briskly.  Smoke beats down.

Still, but very sharp air.  Immundi miminere sues jactare maniplos.  The thermometer which was at 27 in the dining room, rose to 44 1/2 in the wine vaults.

Milk freezes within.  Some snow all day.

Wood-pigeons appear in flocks.  Ground very hard.

Moles work.  The ground was very white in the morning.  Ice bears.