Chap. I.] Journal. — ^April. 41 



April. 



I. Very fine and warm. 

 2 & 3. Same weather. 



4. Rain all day. 



5. Rain ^11 day. Our cistern and pool full. 



6. Warm, but no sun. Turkeys begin to lay. 



7. Same weather. My first spring operations in 

 gardening are now going on ; but 1 must reserve an ac- 

 count of them for another Part of my work. 



8. Warm and fair. 



9. Rain and rather cold. 



10. Fair but cold. It rained but yesterday, and we 

 arc to-day feeding sheep and lambs with grain of corn, 

 and with oats, upon the yround in the orchard. Judge, 

 then, of the cleanness and convenience of this soil! 



II. Fine and warm. 



12 & 13. A\ arm and fair. 



14. Drying -wind and miserably cold. Fires 

 again in day-time, which I have not had for some days 

 past. 



15. Warm, like a fine Blay-day in England. We 

 are planting out selected roots for seed. 



16. Rain all last night. Warm. Very fine in-. 

 deed. 



17. Fine warm day. Heavy thunder and rain at 

 night. The Martins (not swallows) are come into the 

 bam and are looking out sites for the habitations of 

 their future young ones. 



18. Cold and raw. Damp, too, which is extremely 

 rare. The worst day I have yet seen during the year. 

 Stops the grass, stops the swelling of the buds. The 

 young chickens hardly peep out from under the wings 

 of the hens. The lambs don't play, but stand knit up. 

 The pigs growl and srpieak ; and the birds are gone 

 away to the woods again. 



19. Sam.e weather wth an Easterly wind. Just such 

 a wind as that, which, in March, brushes round the cor- 

 ners of the streets of London, and makes the old, 

 muffled-up debauchees hurry home with aching Joints. 

 Some hail to-day. 



