Chapter Cerastes to Chaonian Bird of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

two magnates are fast friends, but are turned adrift by their fathers for marrying in opposition to their wishes. When reduced to abject poverty, the old men go to visit their sons, relent, and all ends happily.

Talbot Champneys, a swell with few brains and no energy. His name, which was his passport into society, would not find him in salt in the battle of life. He marries Mary Melrose, a girl without a penny, but his father wanted him to marry Violet the heiress.

Miss Champneys, sir Geoffry’s sister, proud and aristocratic, but quite willing to sacrifice both on the altar of Mr. Perkyn Middlewick, the butterman, if the wealthy plebeian would make her his wife, and allow her to spend his money.—H. J. Byron: Our Boys (1875).

Chandos House (Cavendish Square, London), so called from being the residence of James Brydges, duke of Chandos, generally called “The Princely Chandos.”

Chandos Street. (See Caribee Islands, p. 179.)

Chanounes Yemenes Tale (The), that is, a yemen’s tale about a chanoun. (A “yemen” is a bailiff.) This is a tale in ridicule of alchemy. A chanoun humbugged a priest by pretending to convert rubbish into gold. With a film of wax he concealed in a stick a small lot of thin gold. The priest stirred the boiling water with the stick, and the thin pieces of gold, as the wax melted, dropped into the pot. The priest gave the chanoun £40 for the recipe; and the crafty alchemist was never seen by him afterwards.

Chanticleer, the cock, in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498), and also in “The Nonne Prestes Tale,” told in The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer (1388).

Chaonian Bird (The), the dove; so called because doves delivered the oracles of Dodona or Chaonia.

But the mild swallow none with toils infest,
And none the soft Chaonian bird molest.
   —Ovid: Art of Love, ii.