Neither has an attendant village.
[Illustration: _Coombes Church._] [Sidenote: JOSEPH POORGRASS IN FACT] The owl story, which crops up all over the country and is found in literature in Mr.Hardy's novel _Far from the Madding Crowd_, the scene whereof is a hundred miles west of Sussex, has a home also at Upper Beeding, the little dusty village beyond Bramber across the river.

Mr.
Hardy gives the adventure to Joseph Poorgrass; at Beeding, the hero is one Kiddy Wee.

His rightful name was Kidd; but being very small the village had invented this double diminutive.

Lost in the wood he cried for help, just as Poorgrass did.

"Who?
who ?" asked the owl.