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ditch wliicli surrounds the paddock in which they are kept. I understand 

 that they have no extra warmth of shelter during the winter, only the open 

 hovel into which they run to avoid a passing storm. 



Monday, 16th April, — Saw a gray Crow; also a tortoise-shell Buttei-fly, and 

 a Garden White. Tuesday, 17th April, — First Swallow. Saturday, 21st April, 

 — Large flight of Fieldfares. Thursday, 3rd May, — Heavy falls of snow. 

 Saturday, 5th May, — Self-registering thermometer showed during the night 

 ten degrees of frost. Tuesday, 8th May, — Heavy hail and snow hlasts. 

 Monday, 14th May, — Heard first Cuckoo. Last year took the first orange- 

 tip Butterfly on Wednesday, 12th April, then plentiful; this year, — saw the 

 first on Saturday, (?) 19th May. I may also add that, though now the 21st 

 of May, few of the hedges show much green ; the horse-chesnuts are not out, 

 and not many of the heeches show their leaves; and, from their appearance, 

 the old ashes will not he in leaf until July. 



Excuse this scrawl ; if you can make any use of it, all well and good. — 



Swinhope, near Great Grimsby, LincolnsJdre, 

 May 2Ut, 1855. 



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