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Show A KABYLE MARRIAQB. fhe Ceremony Is Complicated and WlaA Up With an Exciting Incident. The wedding ceremony among the Kabyles is interesting because of it comparative resemblance to the customi of the old Greeks and Romans and even to those which still prevail in sequestered seques-tered parts of Franca Here it is the girl's father who exacts a wedding portion, por-tion, a sum of about 8, for which the bridegroom has generally to rely upon the advances of his friends. Often, too, the young man has not a house for his brido, in which case his friends set to work and build one, no very difficult matter. On the wedding day the bride is led through the villages in the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, mounted on a mule am eooorted by friends and relations, who shout and fire guns again and again. The various householders hasten forth to offer her a siev6ful of beans, nuts or dried figs. Ol these she takes a handful, which she kisses and then replaces in the 6ieva .111 the offerings are collected in sacks by the old women of the procession as contributions to the young people's larder. lar-der. At the bridegroom's house the girl' hands are washed with liquid butter. Then they give her some fresh eggs, which she breaks on the mule's head and inside the unhappy animal's ears, theret- it ia believed, counteracting any evil designs against her and her husband's happiness. Before entering the house she drinks milk, fresh antf our, and also water, and scatters ovw her shoulder a handful of barley, whoa and salt for the good of the funnily. The husband then approaches her and fires a pistol above her head to signify that thenceforward he has the power of life and death over her. Not infrequently infrequent-ly he makes the symbol even more em phatic by firing into her headdress and petting her aflame. This done, little remains re-mains except for the youth to lift the lady in his arms and carry her bodily Into his house. All the Year Round- |