CHAP. I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 35 



1817. 



Aug. 23. She says she has never read Peter 

 Pindar's account of the dialogue be 

 tween the King and the Cottage- 

 woman ; and yet she knows very 

 well how to get the apples within 

 side of the paste. N. B. No man 

 ought to come here, whose wife and 

 daughters cannot make puddings 

 and pies. 



24. Fine hot day. 



25. Fine hot day. 



26. Fine hot day. 



27. Fine hot day. Have not seen a 

 cloud for many days. 



28. Windy and rather coldish. Put on 

 cotton stockings and a waistooat 

 with sleeves. Do not like this 

 weather. 



29. Same weather. Do not like it. 



30. Fine and hot again. Give a great 

 many apples to hogs. Get some 

 hazle-nuts in the wild grounds. 

 Larger than the English : and much 

 about the same taste. 



31. Fine hot day. Prodigious dews. 

 Sept. 1. Fine and hot. 



2.' Fine and hot. 



3. Famously hot. Fine breezes. Be 

 gan imitating the Disciples, at least 

 D 2 



