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began picking up the slices of bread and butter, and the 

 fragments of the china, repeating very mildly — 



" Invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae." 



I am your very humble servant, 



V. 



The following entry in the Natur^alist's Journal 

 may interest Selborne residents : — 



"Jan. 26 [1781]. My Heliotrope, which is J. Carpenter's 

 workshop, shows plainly that the days are lengthened con- 

 siderably : for on the shortest day the shades of my two old 

 chimneys fall exactly in the middle of the great window of 

 that edifice at half an hour after two p.m., but now they are 

 shifted into the quick-set hedge, many yards to the S.E." 



To Miss White. Selborne, Feb. 6, 1781. 



Dear Molly, — I was much pleased to see a letter from 

 your father under his own hand : for it was indeed a very 

 long time since I had seen any such thing. Pray desire 

 him soon to receive my Xmass dividend, because I want 

 to get all my monies together that I may pay my debts. 

 We have had a dry and a mild winter: from Nov. 25th, 

 1780, to Jan. 18, 1781, there fell, with us, only '69 of rain; 

 and snow ; less than three-quarters of an inch ! 



We were much pleased with your account of Buddie: 

 D' Chandler calls you Sister Antiquary, and talked much 

 of you this day : he wonders your father does not get 

 acquainted with D"^ Ducarrel,* whom he esteems as a very 

 knowing man, and one from whom much might be learned. 



Yesterday Miss Shutter was married at Beaconsfield to 

 a Mr. Kansford, a young gentleman of a very great landed 

 estate near Northampton: his mother lives at Bath. 

 Yesterday also Mr. Etty received a letter from his son 



* Librarian at Lambeth Palace. 

 VOL. II. — F 



