My father was taught the following extension of the phrase ‘How now brown cow’ (used in elocution):
Mr Brown came out of his house on the South Downs to find a brown cow browsing on the plough. Out bounced trouncer, growling loudly. “Down foul hound”, he shouted and clouted him soundly round the snout.
Apparently, there was a second verse about Mr Brown going down the ‘mountain’ to fishing for ‘brown trout’. Does anyone know it?
