16 JULY 1932, Page 14

A SUSSEX FARMER.

A scholar who cultivates the happy hobby of rubbing brasses and collecting and translating old Latin epitaphs has lately come upon a charming inscription in the church of Bignor, Sussex. The latter part of it ought to please the happy countryman. It is recorded there that the third son of Thomas Sefton had a life in sharp contrast with that of other members of his family. He went on the land " TERTIUS LARI LITANS, 0 FELIX FATUM, TRANQUILLUS MORITUR SENEX AGRICOLA.

The third son, keeping his home and cultivating his fields-- a happy lot—lived to a serene old age." It is a pretty example of Candide's " Il faut cultiver notre jarclin."

W. BEACH THOMAS.