Now, in the middle part of the third hour, the air of the Gorge did begin that it was heavy, and to have a seeming of fumes that stang something upon the throat, odd whiles.

These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven foot high.

[Footnote 4: Stang is an old name for a pole, or perch, sixteen and one-half feet.

The stang is of Saxon origin, and is practised in Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, for the purpose of exposing a kind of gyneocracy, or,

A sort of mock proclamation is then made in doggerel verse at the door of all the alehouses in the parish, or wapentake, as follows: "It is neither for your sake nor my sake That I ride stang;

Then we will come, And ride the stang again.

It is called riding the stang.

From Cirion we went to Macao, which is a prettie towne, where we left our boates or Paroes, and in the morning taking Delingeges, which are a kind of Coches made of cords and cloth quilted, and caried vpon a stang betweene 3. or 4.

Beef stangs.

" "Well, yes," said Old Uncle Lazzenberry, who was intimately acquainted with most of the happenstances of the village, "Almira Stang has broken off her engagement with Charles Henry Tootwiler.