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so docile, so gentle as these, while they require 

 at our hands so little care and labour in 

 return ! 



108. Now, it will be observed, that the 

 turnips here spoken of, were put up when the 

 ground and the turnips were frozen. Yet they 

 have kept perfectly sound and good ; and I am 

 preparing to plant some of them for seed. I 

 am now writing on the Wth of April. I send off 

 these turnips to market every week. The tops 

 and tails and offal to the pigs, to the ewes and 

 lambs, and to a cow, and to working oxen, 

 which all feed together upon this offal flung 

 out about the barn-yard, or on the grass ground 

 in the orchard. Before they have done, they 

 leave not a morsel. But, of feeding I shall 

 speak by and by. 



109. The other crop of turnips, I mean those 

 which were transplanted, as mentioned in para 

 graphs 72 and 73, and which, owing to their 

 being planted so late in the summer, kept on 

 growing most luxuriantly till the very hard 

 frosts came. 



110. We were now got on to the 17th of 

 December ; and I had cabbages to put up. Sa 

 turday, Sunday, and Monday, the 21st and 

 22nd and 23rd, we had &very hard frost, as the 

 reader, if he live on this island, will well re 

 member. There came a thaw afterwards, and 

 the transplanted turnips were put up like the 



