| Show HAVE DONE BETTER marriage arrangement seemed so something ie of a barsale Bars Saro aln but it turned out happily george A birmingham tile tho widely known writer says there Is no country in the world where marriage at least in the peasant c class lass Js wore more a latter iatter of bargaining mid and yot yet kho a it higher average of stability and content than ireland sometimes some times the man has never seen been the women he bo tore they are brought together the precise number of pounds or alga to bo be handed over having been by that time settled this Is illustrated in personal recollections just published by an irish woman she was vas visiting with an aunt a cottage in the neighborhood and admired a title fine mahogany chest of dra drawers ivers for that J was wa s married sald tho mistress of the cottage A young farmer had also seen and admired A bargain was struck there was no money but the bride was to have a couple of sheep a yearling bullock and the chest the p prudent young man measured it and then turned and asked an afi which 0 thim little girls Is it if she was tho the oldest dunmar unmarried aled the doore as the phrase was an so eo I 1 wint she said and was happy ever afterwards tit bits |
