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Show QUCCn OLD FUNERAL CUSTOM. Ceremony In County Wexford, Ireland, It Centurlet Old In the district known a the barony of lonh In County Wexford Ire-lard Ire-lard la lo Ihi found a rare of hard norklns IndnitrLut -watanta living In lhalrhed collacca llh clean whl'e-waahed whl'e-waahed wtlla uhleh by their pef'tt whllenera tt once arreat the atientlno sf tlie lllor Thete people differ In m,ry reaierta from the Inhnbllanta of e other part, of the aame county rml hare Imllia and ru.toma peculiar to tfcpm.eiios They are tron lielkr era In the efficacy of prajert for the dead When a funeral tikea .ilare two woolen eroeaea ate proli'ed On the nay to the ce-netery a halt I. mnrta tt a certain apot by the able of tie rord Hire raeiaaieald for the de-cied aflir which one eroia l depoatel In a tawihirn bnh or under II The nrir.a Ion then eoea on lla 'ay an I fler the Irterment the nf-er cro It Died at the head of lie nmc Th a tranae ru'lam daie from time lm tnemntltl aa the ari. pile of crotict I by the roadihle Indicate |