If I were to write a diary here, it would be after the following sort:--
_Monday._--Another shark! Mercy on us! What a brute! But not so big as the other.
_Tuesday._--We had capital honey this morning to breakfast; eightpence per lb.--freshly expressed from the wax, and got from Granny Jolter's farm.
_Wednesday._--My _Times_ did not come by to-day's post, and I feel I don't know how.
_Thursday._--The "hot crab" which we had at the parsonage, where we dined to-day, was exquisite. The way it is done is--the whole of the inside, and the claws, having been mixed together with a little rich gravy, (sometimes cream is used;) curry-_paste_, not curry-powder, and very fine fried crumbs of bread, is put into the shell of the crab and then _salamandered_. If _my_ cook can do it on my return to town, I will give her half-a-crown.
_Friday._--Nothing whatever happened; but it looked a little like rain, over the downs, about four o'clock in the afternoon.
_Saturday._--A day of incidents. Ten o'clock A.M.--The coast-guard man told me, that about five o'clock this morning, as he was coming along ---- cliff, a young fox popped out of a thicket close at his feet, looked "quite steady-like at him for about five seconds," and then ran back into the furze.
Eleven o'clock.--Saw a Cockney "gent" on a walking tour, the first of the sort that I have seen in these parts, and he looked frightened at the solitariness of the scene. Every thing that he had on seemed new: a dandified shining hat; a kind of white pea-jacket; white trowsers; fawn-coloured, gloves; little cloth boots tipped with shining French polished leather; a very slight umbrella covered with oil-skin; and a little telescope in a leathern case, slung round his waist. He fancied, as he passed me, that he had occasion to use a gossamer white pocket-handkerchief, with a fine border to it; for he took it out of an outside breast-pocket, and unfolded it deliberately and jauntily. Whence came he, I wonder? He cannot walk four miles further, poor fellow! for evidently walking does not agree with him: yet he must, or sit down and cry in this out-of-the-way place.
Two o'clock.--Tickler caught a little crab among the rocks. It got hold of his nose, and bothered him.