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ter me with questions. Does not cram 

 me with meat. Lets me eat and drink 

 what I like, and when I like, and gives 

 mugs of nice milk. I find here, a very 

 agreeable and instructive occasional com- 

 panion, in Mr. M'Allister the elder. 

 Buit, of the various useful information that 

 I received from him, I must speak in the 

 Second Part of this work, 

 •^an. 29. Very hard frost this morning. Change 

 very sudden. All about the house a glare 

 of ice. 



.30. Not so hard. Icicles on the trees on 

 the neighbouring mountains like so many 

 millions of sparkling stones, when the sun 

 shines, yvhich is all the day. 



31. Same weather. Two farmers of Ly- 

 coming county had heard that William 

 Cobbett was here. They modestly in- 

 troduced themselves. What a contrast 

 with the " Yeomanry Cavalry r^ 

 Feb. 1. Same weather. About the same as a 

 " hard frost" in England, 



2. Same weather, 



3. Snow. 



4. Little snow. Not much frost. This day, 

 thirty-three years ago, I enlisted as a sol- 

 dier. I always keep the day in recol- 

 lection. 



5. Having been to Karrisburgh on the 2d., 

 returned to McAllister's to-day in a 

 sleigh. The River begins to be frozen 

 over. It is about a mile Tn'ide. 



6. Little snow again, and hardish frost. 



7. Now and then a little snow. — Talk with 

 some hop -growers. Prodigious crops in 

 this neighbourhood ; but, of them in the 

 Second Part. What would a Farnham 

 man think oi^ thirty himdred weight of hops 



