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Ratton faculty chapel — I take it to be a faculty — 

 is worth a long pilgrimage to visit, with its 

 memorials of the Parkers and Freeman Thomases, 

 also a priceless muniment chest poked into a 

 dark corner as a store for firewood and mean 

 odds and ends. Further, I promised myself to 

 look up Mr Lewis, the celebrated South Coast 

 sculler, and get him to let me look over the 

 Eastbourne Rowing Club's boats, craft in which 

 I am greatly interested, and had thoughts of 

 striking across the hills to the Jevington stables, 

 also Batho's at Alfriston. Alas ! the light was 

 turned off the ''old min." Mr Elements became 

 distinctly unfriendly ; going on the hills was 

 unwise, so I started off on a long walk. What 

 luck do you imagine came my way for fifteen 

 blessed miles ? I was in the wake of a motor car 

 which wouldn't go except by fits and starts, but 

 went enough to be always just ahead of me, 

 jibbing, or doing something else refractory, at 

 short intervals, and going again as I came near, 

 just as if I was the starter's man with the long- 

 thonged whip. I was following a hot drag of 

 methol for hours, and don't want any more walk- 

 ing in that way. 



One of the last names I should expect to hit 

 upon came to me at the Eastbourne excursionists' 

 favourite resort, Litlington, as I was making for 

 Alfred's Town, which, authority says, was someone 

 else's. Colonial brothers who happen to go that 

 way, you must visit the churchyard and pay your 

 respects to " Charles Joseph La Trobe, Esq., 

 C.B., first Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of 

 Victoria, Australia, who died at Litlington on 

 December 4, 1875, aged 74," and was buried 

 there. Born much about at the opening of 1800, 



