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 CHAPTER XIX

"A precious piece of architecture"—Guest at an inn—A pleasant city—Unexpected kindness—A medieval lavatory—An honest lawyer!—The cost of obliging a stranger—Branston—A lost cyclist—In search of a husband!—Dunston Pillar—An architectural puzzle—A Lincolnshire spa—Exploring—An ancient chrismatory     372

CHAPTER XX

A long discourse—The origin of a coat-of-arms—An English serf—A witch-stone—Lincolnshire folk-lore—A collar for lunatics—St. Mary's thistle—A notable robbery—An architectural gem—Coningsby—Tattershall church and castle—Lowland and upland—"Beckingham-behind-the-Times"—Old Lincolnshire folk     395

CHAPTER XXI

A cross-country road—A famous hill—Another medieval inn—"The Drunken Sermon"—Bottesford—Staunton Hall—Old family deeds—A chained library—Woolsthorpe manor-house—A great inventor!—Melton Mowbray—Oakham—A quaint old manorial custom—Rockingham Castle—Kirby     415

CHAPTER XXII

A well-preserved relic—An old English home—Authorities differ—Rooms on the top of a Church tower—A medieval-looking town—A Saxon tower—Bedford—Bunyan's birth-*place—Luton—The end of the journey     436

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