G. Canon's Yeoman Prologue)

Perhaps then arose the canon's vicars who represented the canons and chanted in choir.

The canon's light eyes grew rounder with alarm.

" Dr. Blundell touched the canon's arm.

For John, with a slight bow of apology, and his grave air of authority, had quietly taken the letter from the canon's undecided fingers, and walked away with it into the library.

" There was a pause; and Peter remained silent, embarrassed by the canon's emotion, and not knowing very well how to reply.

We passed the rectory, and there was that idle doctor lolling in the canon's verandahkeeping the poor man from his haymaking.

"He consumed his time in writing verses to the canon's niece; and even as Hercules in the gay court of Omphale threw down his club in order to hold the distaff, so Abélard laid aside his sceptre as a monarch of the schools to sing sonnets at the feet of Héloïse."

Footnote 155: A similar story of quackery is found in Chaucer, "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale.

The arrival of Haydn and Consuelo at the Canon's villa is a very trifling incident; yet we may read a dozen boisterous stories from beginning to end, and not receive so fresh and stirring an impression of adventure.

Stolen were they from the canon's kitchen, and you know it!

When it was ended the buttered-roll expression had faded from the Canon's face, and his "our young friend" expression was ready for the chairman's remarks.

Next he made a hasty fence across the canon's mouth, and turning the sheep out of the pen, he drove them by slow stages toward the rest of the flock.

He found that his brother the gardener had died, and that the widow and her son had taken refuge in a garret in the Claverias, where she supported herself by washing the canon's linen.

Nobody went to the church, but the people came to the Minor Canon's house, and anxiously asked him how long the Griffin was going to stay.

All the other schools were closed, but the parents of the Minor Canon's scholars forced them to go to school, because they were so bad they could not endure them all day at home,griffin or no griffin.

But, although the citizens had been so anxious that the young clergyman should go to the dreadful wilds, thinking that the Griffin would immediately follow him, they were now afraid to mention the Minor Canon's destination, for the monster seemed angry already, and, if he should suspect their trick he would, doubtless, become very much enraged.

One morning he looked into the Minor Canon's school-house, which was always empty now, and thought that it was a shame that every thing should suffer on account of the young man's absence.

CHAUCER'S PRIORESS'S TALE, Pardoner's Tale, Clerk's Tale, and Canon's Yeoman's Tale.

After the briefest preparation, he took minor orders and occupied a canon's stall in the cathedral of Granada.

The monotonous routine of a canon's duties meant stagnation to his keen, curious temperament, athirst for movement and novelty.