118 MAY. 



place, abounding in all the good things which 

 may be made from milk ; rich cream, sweet 

 butter, curds, curds and cream, syllabubs, cus- 

 tards, 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, train- 

 ing, and putting in flower-seeds. The children 

 of the poor have an easy and pleasant occupa- 

 tion in gathering cowslips for wine. Poultrv- 

 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 moderately 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 fore- 

 noon, and from two to seven in the afternoon : 

 but Isaac Walton says they will bite at all sea- 

 sons, and all hours ; " being like the wicked of 



