o8 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &c. Part 1. 



gish fellow. Prepared for winter. Patch- 

 ed up a boarded building, which was for- 

 merly a coach-house ; but, which is not 

 so necessary to me, in that capacity, as in 

 that of a fowl-house. The neighbours tell 

 me, that the poultry will roost out on the 

 trees all the winter, which, the weather 

 being so dry in winter, is very likely ; 

 and, indeed, they musty if they have no 

 house, which is almost universally the 

 case. However, I mean to give the poor 

 things a choice. I have lined the said 

 coach-house with Corn Stalks and leaves of 

 trees, and have tacked up Cedar boughs 

 to hold the lining to the boards, and have 

 laid a bed of leaves a foot thick all over the 

 floor. I have secured all against dogs, 

 and have made ladders for the fowls to go 

 in at holes six feet from the ground. I 

 have made pig-styes, lined round with Ce- 

 dar boughs and well covered. A sheep 

 yard, for a score of Ewes to have lambs in 

 spring, surrounded with a hedge of cedar 

 houghs, and with a shed for the Ewes to 

 lie under, if they like. The oxen and 

 cow are tied up in a stall. The dogs 

 have a place, well covered, and lined 

 with corn stalks and leaves. And now, I 

 can, without anxiety, sit by the fire, or lie 

 In bed, and hear the North- Wester whis- 

 tle. 

 .'c.n. 5. Frost. Like what we call " nhard frost'" 

 in England. 



6. Such another frost at night, but a thaw in 

 the middle of the day. 



7. Little frosf. Fine warm day. The sun 

 seems loath to quit us. 



8. Same weather. 



9. A harder fro^t, and snow at night. The 



