One bronzed mariner with silver earrings I entertained to three stoups of usquebaugh, hoping for strange tales, but the little I had from him before he grew drunk was that he had once voyaged to the Canaries.

It had no piazzas, or stoups, and was still without external windows, one range excepted.

We sat beneath the shade of a huge Bamboo clump; cut ourselves pint-stoups out of the joints; and then, like great boys, got, some of us at least, very wet in fruitless attempts to catch a huge cray-fish nigh eighteen inches long, blue and gray, and of a shape something between a gnat and a spider, who, with a wife and child, had taken up his abode in a pool among the spurs of a great Bois Immortelle.

However, he was too nimble for us; and we went on, and inland once more, luckily not leaving our bamboo stoups behind.

And, when the bamboo stoups were brought out, and three-quarters of a pint of good soup was served roundnot forgetting the Negroes, one of whom, after sucking it down, rubbed his stomach, and declared, with a grin, that it was very good Obeah- -the oddness of the scene came over me.

Whisky toddy and plotty (red wine mulled with spices) came into the supper-room in ancient flagons or stoups after a lengthy repast of broiled chickens, roasted moorfowl, pickled mussels, flummery, and numerous other good things had been discussed by a party who ate as if they had not dined that day.

She used to go to the well every night with her two stoups to draw water, so I thought of watching to give her two apples which I had carried in my pocket for more than a week for that purpose.

Baptismal fonts, now used as holy-water stoups, are probably of anterior workmanship.

They had much the appearance of very primitive holy-water stoups, such as are to be seen in some rural churches, for they were blocks of stone rounded and hollowed out with the chisel.

Other interesting items are the finely sculptured font and stoups at the north and south doors.

The sanctuary contains a sedile and piscina, and a stoup and a rougher piscina will be found in the nave.

Externally should also be noted (1) the vigorous, though defaced, series of gargoyles above the S. porch, representing an amateur orchestra; (2) the remains of a stoup; (3) the curious chamber at the S.E. end of the S. transept.

It has a small church, retaining a fine stoup and some fragments of ancient glass in the E. window.

The latter, in St Benedict Street, has a well-designed tower, but is not otherwise noteworthy (observe stoups in porch and

The "Virginia Inn" at the cross-road is said to be the spot where Sir Walter Raleigh's servant emptied a stoup of beer over his master, who was smoking, in the belief that he was on fire.

Note (1) the stoup near S. door; (2) the piscina in the chancel; (3) the squint in the S. pier of the chancel; (4) the Jacobean pulpit (dated 1625).

In this aisle is a holy-water stoup.

The latter contains (1) a pillar stoup in the porch; (2) a Norm, font; (3) some old oak benches; (4) fine granite altar slab, found buried for safety's sake; (5) two small corbels in the chancel, presumably for supporting a Lenten veil (cp. Orchardleigh); (6) piscinas in chancel and S. aisle.

Its church has unusually prominent buttresses to the tower, and preserves (1) remains of stoup in S. porch; (2) piscinas in S. nave wall and chancel; (3) aumbry; (4) poppy heads to seats.

The church has been rebuilt, but preserves its Norman font (with cable moulding), and a holy-water stoup (within the S. door).

The original niches and stoups of the W. front will be found built into a small mortuary chapel at the N.W. corner of the churchyard.

Note (1) stoup in S. porch; (2) piscinas; (3) mural tablet in chancel to the memory of William Kinglake, a physician (d. 1660), with its curious inscription.

At the W. door there is a fine stoup.

Note (1) stoups in S. porch and outside N. door; (2) Jacobean stalls; (3) piscina and aumbry; (4) niche in E. wall of N. aisle; (5) richly carved square font.

Note (1) the stoups on either side of the W. doorway; (2) the carvings (part of the original fabric) in the spandrels above.