Chaucer admired Petrarch for his "rethorike sweete" which illumined the poetry of Italy, and was himself in turn loved by Lydgate as the "nobler rethor poete of brytagne," who is called "floure of rethoryk in Englisshe tong," by John Walton.

The only other situation in all China which accords with the two canals, or rivers, communicating both with Kathay and Mangi, is Yotcheou on the Tong-ting-hou lake, which is on the Kian-ku river, and at a sufficient distance from the Hoang-ho to agree with the text.

So forth those ioyous birdes did passe along Adowne the lee, that to them murmurde low, 115 As he would speake, but that he lackt a tong, Yet did by signes his glad affection show, Making his streame run slow.

What haue I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tong, [Sidenote: Ger.]

Party N. party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band. horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, &c 166; team; tong.

They wage open warfare, and so deadly is their mutual hatred, that the war ceases only when the last individual who has come under the ban of a rival tong has been sacrificed.

Over the door of the great porch, leading to the hall, are two coats of arms cut in stone; the one is those of Vernon, the other of Fulco de Pembridge, lord of Tong, in Shropshire, whose daughter and heir married Sir Richard Vernon, and brought him a great estate.

the answer is, to the Count Borromeo, who seems to be as universal a proprietor here as Nong-tong-paw at Paris or Monsieur Kaniferstane at Amsterdam.

This sea is called by the Chinese Tong-hai; and in it are the large islands Formosa and Loo-choo; but I know nothing of them.

They used tong-hand sticks to carry the logs to the piles where they were burning them.

" "The names of the five districts in the Chinchew prefecture are Tong-an, An-khoe, Chin-kiang, Hui-an and Lam-an.

"From a comparison with many other parts of the country, there is reason to believe that a greater number of children are destroyed at birth in the Tong-an district than in any other of this department, probably more than in any other of this department, probably more than in any other part of the province of equal extent and populousness.

In the Tong-an district I have inquired of persons from forty different towns and villages.

It was near the water's edge at the mooring-place of junks from the many-peopled districts of Tong-an and Lam-an.

At the same time there was a rising of the insurgents at Tong-an and An-khoe, districts to the north of Amoy.

" In the large cities of Tong-an and Chinchew placards were posted in great numbers.

SEE Chinese tong wars of the days of '49. R63256.

The hand of the tong.

R59368, 9Mar50, Ethel R. Brown (E) CHINESE TONG WARS OF THE DAYS OF '49, by Harry C. Peterson.

SEE Chinese tong wars of the days of '49. R63256.

The hand of the tong.

To what family do you belong?' "Cheng-chong answered: 'I am Mr. Ni, living at Tong-ku-an.

For instance, the English nickname Livorno Leghorn, the Germans insist on calling Venice Venedig, and the French convert Washington into the Chinese word Voss-Hang-Tong.

Tong wars are of frequent occurrence, crime and its punishment being so mixed up that an outsider cannot unravel them.

All are excited, chattering like magpies, as they discuss the latest bulletin of a Tong war, or some other notice of equal interest; and here we leave them, and Chinatown also, passing over the line out of the precincts of the Celestial, and into our own "God's country.