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Show Peculiar Land Tenure Custom. fM At Chlngford, In Essex, England, an , 11 estate Is held by a very strange con- Li . dltion. Whenever It passes Into new hands, tho owner, with his wife, man- m tervant and mald-scrvant, comes on JsR orseback to tbo parsonago and pays. Q - uls homago by blowing tbrce blasts' J upon a born; he carries a hawk upon M blB fist and his servant has a grey II hound In the slip, both for tho use of JI tho rector for that day. Ho recolves a i "a chicken for tho hawk, a peck of oats I 1 for his horse and a loaf of bread for 3 his greyhound. After dinner tho own- h er blowa tbrce moro blasts, and then n with bis party withdraws from th rectory. J |