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CHAPTER XI

A pleasant road—Memories—Shortening of names—Health-drinking—A
Miller and his mill—A rail-less town—Changed
times and changed ways—An Elizabethan church
clock—A curious coincidence—Old superstitions—Satire
in carving—"The Monks of Old" 204


CHAPTER XII

A civil tramp—Country hospitality—Sleaford—A Lincolnshire
saying—A sixteenth-century vicarage—Struck by lightning—"The
Queen of Villages"—A sculptured anachronism—Swineshead—A
strange legend—Local proverbs—Chat
with a "commercial"—A mission of destruction—The
curfew—Lost our way—Out of the beaten track—A grotesque
figure and mysterious legend—Puzzling inscriptions—The
end of a long day 226


CHAPTER XIII

The Fenland capital—Mother and daughter towns—"Boston
stump"—One church built over another—The company
at our inn—A desultory ramble—An ancient prison—The
Pilgrim Fathers—The banks of the Witham—Hussey
Tower—An English Arcadia—Kyme Castle—Benington—A
country of many churches—Wrangle—In search of a
ghost—A remote village—Gargoyles—The grotesque in
art 248


CHAPTER XIV

Wind-blown trees—Marshlands—September weather—Wainfleet—An
ancient school—The scent of the sea—The
rehabilitation of the old-fashioned ghost—A Lincolnshire
mystery—A vain search—Too much alike—Delightfully
indefinite—Halton Holgate—In quest of a haunted house 268