6G CLIMATE, SEASONS, kc. Part L 



24. Warm night, warm and fair day. And 

 here I close my Journal ; for, I am in 

 haste to get my manuscript away; and 

 there now wants only ten days to com- 

 plete the year. — I resume, now, the 

 Numhering of my Paragraphs^ having 

 begun my Journal at the close of Para- 

 graph No. 20. 



21. Let us, now, take a survey, or rather 

 glance, at the face which nature now wears. The 

 grass begins to afford a good deal for sheep and 

 for my grazing English pigs, and the cow and oxen 

 get a little food from it. The pears, apples, and 

 other fruit trees have not made much progress in 

 the swelling or bursting of their buds. The buds 

 of the Weeping willow have bursted (for, in spite 

 of that conceited ass, Mr. James Perry, to hurst 

 is a regular verb, and vulgar pedants only make it 

 irregular,) and those of a Lilac, in a warm place, 

 are almost bursted, which is a great deal better 

 than to say, " almost bursts Oh, the coxcomb ! 

 As if an obsolete pedagogue like him could injure 

 me by his criticisms ! And, as if an error like this, 

 even if it had been one, could have any thing to 

 do with my capacity for develo])ing principles, and 

 for simplifying things, Avhich, in their nature, are 

 of great complexity ! — The oaks, which, in Eng- 

 land, have now their sap in full Jiozc, are here 

 quite unmoved as yet. In the gardens in general 

 there is nothing green, while in England, they have 

 broccoli to eat, early cabbages planted out, cole- 

 worts to eat, peas four or six inches high. Yet, we 

 shall have green peas and loaved cabbage as soon 

 as they u^ilL . We have sprouts from the cabbage 

 stems preserved under cover ; the Swedish tuinip 

 is giving me greens from bulbs planted out in March: 



