42 Journal.— April. [Part I, 



20. Same weather. Just the weather to give 

 drunkards the " blue devils." 



21. Frost this morning. Ice as thick as a dollar. 

 Snow three times. Once to cover the ground. Went 

 otr again directly. 



22. Frost and ice in, the morning. A very fine day, 

 but not warm. Dandelions blow. 



23. Sharp Avhite frost in morning. Warm and fine 

 day. 



24. Warm night, Avarm and fair day. And here I 

 close my Journal; for, I am in haste to get my manu- 

 script away ; and there now -wants only ten days to 

 complete the year. I resume, now, the Numbering of 

 my Paragraphs, having begun my Journal at the close 

 of Paragraph No. 20, 



21. Let us, now, take a survey, or rather glance, at 

 the face, which nature now wears. The grass begins to 

 afibrd a good deal for sheep and for my grazing Eng- 

 lish pigs, and the cows and oxen get a little food from 

 it. The pears, apples, and other fruit-trees, have not 

 made much progress in the swelling or bursting of their 

 buds. The buds of the weeping- willow have Inirsted 

 (for, in spite of that conceited ass, Mr. James Perry, 

 to burst is a regular verb, and vulgar pedants only 

 make it irregular), and those of a Lilac, in a warm 

 place, are almost bursted, which is a great deal better 

 than to say, " almost burst." Oh, the coxcomb ! As 

 if an absolute pedagogue like him could injure me by 

 his criticisms! And, as if an error lilce this, even if it 

 had been one, could have any thing to do with my ca- 

 pacity for developing principles, and for siraplif}ing 

 things, which, in their nature, are of great complexity ! 

 The oaks, -which, in England, have now tlieir sap in 

 ftill flow, are here quite unmoved as yet. In the gar- 

 dens in general there is nothing green, while, in Eng- 

 land, they have broccoli to eat, early cabbages planted 

 out, coleworts to eat, peas four or five inches high. 

 Yet, we shall have green peas and loaved cabbages as 

 soon as they will. We have sproxiis li'om the cabbage- 

 stems preserved under cover; tlie Swedish turnip is 

 giving me greens from bulbs planted out in March; 

 and i have some broccoli too, just coming on for use. 



