20 CLIMATE, SEASONS, kc. Part I. 



June 4. Fine rain. Began about ten o'clock. 



5. Rain nearly all day. 



6. Fine and warm. Things grow surpris- 

 ingly. 



7. Fine and warm. Rather cold at night. 



8. Hot. 



9. Rain all day. The wood green, and so 

 beautiful ! The leaves look so fresh and 

 delicate ! But the Flowering Locust, on- 

 ly begins to show leaf. It will, by-and- 

 by, make up, by its beauty, for its shy- 

 ness at present. 



10. Fine warm day. The cattle are up to 

 their eyes in grass. 



1 1 . Fine warm day. Like the very, very 

 finest days, in England in June. 



12. Fine day. And, when I say fine, I mean 

 really fine. Not a cloud in the sky. 



13. Fine and hot. About as hot as the hot- 

 test of our English July weather in com- 

 mon years. Lucern 2 1-2 feet high. 



14. Fine and hot ; but we have always a 

 breeze when it is hot, which I did not for- 

 merly find in Pennsylvania, This arises, 

 I suppose, from our nearness to the sea. 



15. Rain all day. 



16. Fine, beautiful day. Never saw such 

 fine weather. Not a morsel of dirt. The 

 ground sucks up all. I walk about and 

 work in the land in shoes made of Deer 

 skin. They are dressed white, like 

 breeches-leather. I began to leave off my 

 coat to-day, and do not expect to put it on 

 again till October. My hat is a white 

 chip, with broad brims. Never better 

 health. 



37. Fine day. The partridges (miscalled 

 quails) begin to sit. The orchard full of 

 birds' nests ; and, amongst others, a dove 

 is sitting on her eggs in an apple tree. 



