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Show How Indians Marry. The custom cus-tom among tna Ojiges is about the ; tame as among all other tribes not f tully civ.iizcd, ar.d ia scmewhat as lollowe: A man who d :.:! red to marry goes tj the lodge of the woman be pr-v.;,ei uptake and sits down out-iiiu out-iiiu of the d'lor, awaiting an iuvita-.tion iuvita-.tion io 1.0 in. At lirst be sends a pret-i t ,,i one pony.and if in response toil'.;- gilt there is do invitalno to cum.) witnin the hdge,' he sends ano-ber pony as a present; i the second sec-ond does not answer the purpos", a third, fourth, fifth or even a u-mh'w fi-iit. When me number of pomes is satisfactory i- the father of the woman Lie donor is invited into the lodge arid te bargain is c :m pitted It ii eo hippeni tint he ui" in oldest girl in u- Umiiy he ia entitled to all her iyounper s;-teri t,( himstlf, o-I o-I if he does not take them fur him-fpif him-fpif h tJrgiri!i nun anv a. r l,l:,vn- ior Hr rMVm. T.nc whore proceed., g i- :n,.r() maU(r of bar-am and mUh, ,n wiuch bompd -ire dPptd of wi!ii:.Ti; tn.-T consent ' 1 1 ffuch iik- came i;i n,., ' T- -re i- !; ,t, ;irjy I. it to ii.e ... ml,r . I wit,,, ... thr.y ure '"''l. ic:. n:t lu.ii-wj m,y haw, ,lid ujeir cu-t im he cm change the occupantB ul his b.dge as often as he chooses. |