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grow ; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an 
end and another is born." 
Selborne seems to abound also in cats as well as children ; 
every cottager seems to keep a cat. Perhaps there are no more 
cats here than in any other place. The appearance is probably 
due to the place being so quiet that cats leave the cottages and 
lazily prowl about out in the roadway. On the top of 
White's house I watched for some time a white puss wandering 
over the tiles. She was evidently after the chimney swallows. 
These poor birds were greatly terrified, and kept working round 
the cat as starlings or jackdaws would round a hawk ; they were 
screaming loudly with fear. Their nests were in the chimneys, 
and if the cat got down the chimney she could, I dare say, have 
got a weakly- Hying young bird for her trouble. 
At page 3 there will be found Mr. Delamotte's prett}^ sketch 
of the Well-head. White knew nothing about hatching salmon 
and trout by artificial means. I have never seen a better place 
than the Well-head for breeding trout and salmon artificially. 
I propose at the next fish-breeding season to fix up a trout- 
hatching box at the Well-lread, in such a manner that it will not 
interfere with the women who come to fetch water. Salmon- 
trout even now sometimes ascend the river Arun (page 3) as far 
as Pulborough, and my friend Mr. Constable, of Arundel, breeds 
many salmonidae ; every year he rears up his young fish to a 
certain size in the water tank at the top of the brewery. Some 
of the Well-head water goes into the Arun. 
The water fiowing from the Well-head runs into a water-cress 
bed — a better nursery for young trout and salmon I never saw. If 
I do not breed salnionidas at Selborne next year I shall certainly, 
with the permission of the local proprietors, turn down a number 
of trout and salmon into this brook. Some of the salmon may pos- 
sibly go down the Wey, and thus assist Mr. Ponder and myself 
in our efforts to salmonize the Thames. 
At page 77 is to be seen the sketch of a very ancient 
wheel for drawing up water. It is in the house of Mr. Loe, 
shoemaker. The woodw^ork of the Avheel presents a fine speci- 
men of dry rot and the work of wood-borers combined. If not 
looked to, this wheel may possibly cause an accident some day. 
It ought to be pensioned off, and hung on the wall at the side 
of the well. 
The Eev. A. N. Campbell-Maclachlan, Vicar of ISTewton 
Valence, adjacent to Selborne, kindly asked me to luncheon, 
and showed me a note-book of Mr. Edmund White's of Newton 
Valence, who was probably ne23hew to Gilbert White. It 
begins thus : — " A journal of weather and other occurrences 
