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Show QUEER OLD FUNERAL CUSTOM. Ceremony In County Wexford, Ireland, Is Centuries Old. In tho district known ns "tho barony of Porth." In County Wexford, Ireland, Ire-land, Is to be found a raco of hnrd-working. hnrd-working. Industrious peasants, living In thatched cottages with clean whitewashed white-washed wnllb. which by their perfect whiteness nt once arrest the attention of tho visitor. These pioplo differ In many respects tioui tho Inhabitants of the other parts of tho samo county and have habits nnd customs peculiar to thomselvos. They nre strong believers believ-ers In the cfllcacy of prayers for the dead. When a funeral takes place two wooden crohsos aro provided On tbo wny to tho cemetery a halt Is mode at a certnln spot by tho side of tho rosd Hero prajors aro said for tho docensed, after which ono cross is deposited In a hawthorn bush or under it. Tho piocession then goes on Its -ray, nnd after the Interment tho other cross Is fixed nt tho head or tho grave This strange cuntom dntos from time Im-momoilal. Im-momoilal. as the great pie or crosses by tho roadsldo Indicate. |