3. To place him on this, two perfons may raife him, by means of a fheet flid under his hips, whilft one or two raife him by the thoulders; one perfon raifing the found leg, and one, the most intelligent of his friends, conducting the fractured limb. 4. In moving the fractured limb, the object which fhould poffefs the mind, fhould be, that the divided pieces of the bone be kept as much as poffible in the fame line, left the fractured ends pierce through the foft parts. 5. If a pillow can be obtained, the broken limb should be placed on it; and, if it appear to be preferable, previous to its being raised. 5. When placed on the litter, he fhould be a little inclined to the fame fide of the injured limb, which, if circumftances will admit, fhould alfo be laid on the fide, and with the knee a little bent. 7. The best mode of conveyance is undoubtedly by two or four men, in the manner in which a fedan chair is carried. A cart, or even a coach, fhould never he employed, where the mode juft recommended can be adopted. 8. As the patient will be under the neceffity of laying fome time without getting up, a mattrass thould be laid on his feather-bed, or, if that cannot be had, two or three long and wide boards, joined together, may be placed under the feather-bed. If this can be done be fore he is firft laid down, much fubfequent pain and exertion will be prevented. If the arm be broken between the elbow and the wrift, the arm should be bent at the elbow, raifing the palm of the hand to the breast, with the fingers moderately bent; the thumb being fuperior, and the little finger inferior. In this ftate it may be retained by a fling or handkerchief, fupporting it from the elbow to the fingers ends. When the arm is fractured between the wrift and fhoulder, the fore arm may be placed in the fame po tion as already described; but the fling, inftead of fupporting the whole length of the arm, thould only fupport the hand, which thould be raised higher than in the former cafe, the elbow being allowed to fink; its motion, however, being prevented, by a handkerchief paffed moderately tight round the trunk, including the fractured arm. CURIOUS PARTICULARS CHARACTERISTIC OF EACH MONTH IN THE YEAR. Chiefly extracted from the New Edition of Dr, Aikin's Calendar of Nature. CALENDAR OF NATURE. JUNE. Now genial funs and gentle breezes reign, And all the ground with short-lived beauty glows! JUNE is in this climate what poets reprefent May to be, a most lovely month. Trees and flowers in all their beauty. 2. Copious fhowers extremely wel come. 3. Shearing of theep very important, for wool is the basis of manufacture. 4. Wool of Dorsetshire makes best broad cloths, of Yorkshire narrow cloths, of Leicefterfhire and Lincoln fhire for hofiery. 5. Shearing always done in warm weather, often with dignity, as a feftival. 6. Great fragrance from clover, white and purple, alfo from beans in bloffom. 7. Beans and peas butterfly-fhaped bloffoms, and leguminous from the pods. Of pea and bean the feed is ufed, of kidneybean the entire pod, of clover, lucerne, and vetch, the N 2 whole whole plant. 8. Hedges in high beauty and fragrance. Inftead of hawthorn the dog-rofe of an elegant variety of colour, next in beauty bitter fweet night-fhade, honeyfuckle next, laft white bryony. All moft beautiful in fucceffion. Several kinds of corn come into ear and flower, alfo numerous fpecies of grafs, alfo many kinds, the leffer of corn, or corn is a large fort of grass. Bamboo, fugar-cane, and reed, largeft of this natural family. 10. Seeds worth the labour of separating, called corn, article of food to all nations. In Europe wheat, rye, barley, and oats; in Afia rice; in Africa and America maize or Indian corn. 11. Smaller kind, called graffes, with their leaves and ftalks make hay, moft fit to be cut after it is in ear, betore its feeds are ripened. 12. Hay harveft latter part of June-very pleafant. 13. Fresh infects, grafshopper, green-beetle, angler's Mav fly, frog-hopper, ftag-horn beetle, and the formidable gad-fly. 14. Seafon for the delicate mackarel. 15. Birds cease their notes, except the stonecurlew, late at night; yellow-hammer, goldfinch, and golden crefted wren, now and then chirping. Cuckoo ceafes. 16. Plants in flower. Vine, wood-fpunge, and wood-pimpernel, buck-bean, water-iris, and willow herbs in marthes, meadow cranes-bill, viper, buglafs, and corn poppy, in fields; mullein, fox-glove, thiftles, and mallow, by road fides, and the fingular bee-orchis, in chalky or limeftone foils. 17. Goofeberries, currants, and ftrawberries ripen, and are refreshing. 18. An hour before fun-fet amufing to fee the barn owl in fearch of field mice, a moufe is brought to the nest once in every five minutes. Fern owl feeding on the fern chaffer, another interefting nocturnal bird, uncommon. 19. Angler's May-fly most short lived, emerges from the water in its aurelia state at fix in the evening, dies at eleven; they appear about 4th of June, and continue a fortnight. 20. Summer folitice, or longeft day, the twenty-first day of this month. THE THE WITCH OF THE WOLD. BY CHARLOTTE SMITH. [From Minor Morals.] Na wild and dreary tract of country on the borders of Westmorland, called a wold, which is in fome places a fort of hilly heath, in others a black and marthy moor, there was a folitary cottage built by a man who paffed for a very odd perfon: fome faid he was a madman, others that he had committed a murder, and others fuppofed him to be a fpy-though no place could be fo ill calculated as that he had chofen for the exercife of fuch a profeffion, The peafantry of the neighbouring country had an extreme dread of him; for none knew how he lived, and none had ever been admitted to his cottage, where it was fuppofed he refided by himfelf. There was a wood adjoining to the wold on the fide next his abode, and through part of it lay the road to a market, at eight miles diftance: this wood, which had formerly belonged to the large domain of an ancient family now gone to decay, had a very ill name.-An human skeleton had been found in it, and fome of the moft fagacious of the neighbouring countrymen had hinted, that these remains were thofe of the perfon whom the Strange Man had killed; yet, in the paths of this gloomy wood, and croffing the wold towards it, late of a night as they returned from market, this myfterious being was often met by the terrified ruftics. He paffed them fometimes in filence, at other times bade them good night in an hollow voice, which they declared was not human. The dread he infpired was at length fuch, that many of the people whofe bufinefs led them that way, were used to crois a dangerous ford rather than go through this wood, or venture an evening meeting with "the Strange Man." This continued for foine years: attempts were made by N 3 fome fome of the farmers to get warrants against him to take him up; but as he was perfectly inoffenfive, never troubled himself with them, and never folicited parish affiftance, there was no juftice who would grant it-till at length a weak and arrogant man, who loved to fhew his power, iffued one: but just as the people who were to ferve it reached the wold, a ftorm arose fo violent and unusual in its effects, that the conftable and his followers, convinced of the fupernatural power of "the Strange Man," fed in difmay, and thought themselves fortunate that they were not carried quite away in a whirlwind, which they doubted not he had raised by magic, to defeat their purpose. The empty and half-ruined manor houfe, to which the wood had formerly belonged, was also an object of terror to thofe fuperftitious and ignorant people. It had not been inhabited for many years; but a grange or farm-yard adjoining to it was rented by a farmer, whofe men declared that in thofe nights of winter, when they had occafion to ftay late in these buildings about the farm-yard, they faw lights gliding about the old houfe, heard unaccountable noifes-and one even went fo far as to relate that he faw by moon-light a pale and ghaftly face at one of the windows. The man was frequently feen ftealing about among the ruins of the old buildings, and those who had courage enough to gaze at him, even at a distance, obferved that he became more and more emaciated in his appearance: fometimes he fuddenly rushed out of the wood, and passed acrofs the path before fome affrighted peafant. At length that part of the country was almost entirely deferted; the market people made another way, to avoid the wold and the wood: but fuch as had, after a time, courage to pass, declared that the ftrange man was gone. None now faw him, and yet a little fmoke fometimes afcended from the chimney of his cottage.-Some perfons, whofe curiofity got the better of their fears, took occafion to peep in at the window, and faid they plainly |