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Show OUEER 'OLD TUNERA-L CUSTOM. Ceremony In County Wexford, Iretand, Is Centuries Old. In tho district known an "tho barony Of Forth," In County "Woxford, Ireland, Ire-land, Is to be found a rnce of hard-working hard-working Industrious peasants, living In thntchpil cottages with clean whitewashed white-washed walls, which by their porfrct whiteness nt once arrest tho attention of tho visitor. These peoplo differ In many respects from the Inhabitants of the other parts of tho sanio county and have habits nnd customs peculiar to themselves. They aro strong believers believ-ers In the cfllcacy of prayers for tho dead. When a funeral takes place two wooden crosses aro provided. On tho way to tho cemetery a hnlt It made at a certain spot by tho side of tho road Hero prayers nro said for tho deceased, after which one cross Is deposited In a hawthorn bush or under It, Tho procession then goes on Its vny, and after the Interment tho other cross Is flxod at tho head of tho grave This strange custom dates from tlmo Immemorial, Im-memorial, ns tho great pllo of crosses by tho roadsldo Indicate. |
