A long stop once held his coat before one of Brown's balls, but the ball went through it and killed a dog on the other side.

Brown could throw a 4-1/2 oz.

ball 137 yards, and he was the father of seventeen children.
He died at Sompting in 1857.
[Sidenote: CHURCHYARD POETRY] Of Racton, on the Hampshire border, and its association with Charles II., I have already spoken.

Below, it is Westbourne, a small border village in whose churchyard are two pleasing epitaphs.

Of Jane, wife of Thomas Curtis, who died in 1719, it is written:-- She was like a lily fresh and green, Soon cast down and no more seen.
and of John Cook: Pope said an honest man Is the noblest work of God.
If Pope's assertion be from error clear, One of God's noblest works lies buried here.
[Illustration: _Bosham._].