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Show Scotch Funeral Custom. I H Natives ot the northeast coast ot M Scotland observe n curious custom nt funerals. After the burial scrvlco the coflln Is carried outsldo the house and placed upon the two chairs on which H It hnd rested within doors. As soon j as the pallbeaiers lift up their bur- ;H don and begin their Journey to the 1 graveyard theso chairs aro at once. jH thrown sharply on tholr backs, in M this position they are kept until the M Interment has taken placo, when they H are taken Indoors agnln. Any attempt H to place the chairs on their legs or H to tako thorn In heforo tho proper iH tlmo Is nt once frustrated by the rel- 'H atlV08 ot the dead. M |