SCRAPS FROM MY SABRETASCHE. BEING PERSONAL ADVENTURES WHILE IN THE BY GEORGE CARTER STENT, M.R.A.S., OF THE CHINESE IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS SERVICE. 99 66 AUTHOR OF THE JADE CHAPLET, ENTOMBED ALIVE," A CHINESE DICTIONARY," W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, SCRAPS FROM MY SABRETASCHE. CHAPTER I. CANTERBURY. And especially, from every shire's end Of Englelond, to Canterbury they wende, The holy blisful martyr for to seke, That hem hath holpen, when that they were seke.-Chaucer. DEAR OLD CANTERBURY! with its castellated gateway, meet entrance into so ancient a city-its quaint narrow streets, pervaded with an air of quietness and repose ;its antiquated, gabled and bow-windowed houses; its hostelries, where even Chaucer's pilgrims may have put up; its alms-houses, with ancient-looking men and women standing in the doorways, suggestive of those who stood there in like manner ages ago ;-its remains of convents, monasteries, and castles ;-its ramparts and towers, hoary with age, but only enhanced in their massive grandeur, |