Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
James Pycroft

Born: 1813
Died: March 10, 1895 (aged 82)
Bio: James Pycroft is chiefly known for writing The Cricket Field, one of the earliest books about cricket, published in 1851.
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