1782. NORFOLK. 323 



ral, about feven to nine pounds a fcore : laft 121. 

 year they were bought for four to five CAWSTON 



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pounds. 



Sheerling-wedders were the cheapeft, and 

 lambs the deareft flock. How a farmer could 

 bid twelve fhillings for lambs, when he might 

 have bought wedders, of almoft twice the fize, 

 for fourteen fhillings, is fomewhat remark- 

 able *. 



This is entirely a fair of bufinefs : fcarcely 

 a woman or a townfman to be feen in ir. 

 Many of the firft farmers in Norfolk were there 

 to-day ; this being, I believe, the greateft 

 " fheep-lhow " in the county. 



124. 



AUGUST 30. On Sunday the 4th inftant TENTHREDO 

 put one black and one blue caterpillar into a THETURNEP 

 box with a turnep-leaf: the black one died ; 

 the blue one laid itfelf up in a fold of the 

 leaf, which it fixed to the bottom of the box. 

 Laft Sunday, the 25th, I fancied I could fee 

 the antennas of the fly playing at one end of 

 the chryfalis ; and not being able to fee it af- 



* My rcafons for giving the minutiae of the bufinefs of 

 fairs appear at the cJofc of the article MARKETS, Vol. I. 



Y 2 terwards, 



