142 MAY. 



farmhouse is now an affluent place, abounding in 

 all the good things which may be made from milk ; 

 rich cream, sweet butter, curds, curds and cream, 

 syllabubs, custards, and so forth. Where there is a 

 dairy, at this season, fetching up cows, milking, 

 churning, scouring utensils making, pressing, and 

 turning cheese, etc. leave no lack of employment. 



Osiers are now peeled ; and it is a pleasant sight 

 to see groups of young and old seated in the open 

 air, at this employment. The garden demands 

 various operations of weeding, training, and putting 

 in flower seeds. The children of the poor have an 

 easy and pleasant occupation in gathering cowslips 

 for wine. Poultry broods, as last month demand 

 attention ; corn is weeded, and rearing calves turned 

 out. 



ANGLING. 



Carp is not in season, nor barbel, till the middle 

 of the month. Perch now become fine, and afford 

 good sport till the end of June: their haunts are 

 clear swift rivers, with pebbly bottoms ; in mode- 

 rately deep waters, near sluices, etc. They frequent 

 holes by the sides of little streams, and the hollows 

 under banks : they are best taken in cloudy, windy 

 weather, and, as some say, from seven to ten in the 

 forenoon, and from two to seven in the afternoon : 

 but Isaac Walton says they will bite at all seasons, 

 and at all hours; "being like the wicked of this 

 world, not afraid, though their companions perish in 



