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Show I-ovo la Tjiptand. When a young Laplander la In lov with a girl bo and she run a race. !! Is heavily handicapped,, so that sb may win If she chooses, and If sho out-l run him ho cannot propoao again. Of) course, she auffers herself to be over-como over-como If she cnre for lilm, but the con - sent of her parent! must be obtained! beforo sbo can be married. Tbe law! ot the land Ii very strict ou thli point,; and In olden times tho man wai subject sub-ject to capita) pdnlfhmcnt It he mar rled without the content of tbe glrl'si parents. After a Laplander hai chosen 14 brldo bo sends her a present of n gtm die, n ring, and n quantity of brandy, He goes ai far ai tho door of ber huL but remain! outside until Invited to enter, when a bumper of brandy Is of-, fared to the girl's fatber. If bo drink It It li a sign be consents to the mar-l rlnge, and tho young lover then promises prom-ises to give tbe girl some clothes, and pays a sum of money, generally aj hundred copper dollaru, down on thaj spot. This, of course, Is n remnant of marriage by purchase, which In primitive prim-itive times succeeded marrlngo by capture, . Sans ore published once In Lapland,! and the mnrrlago ceremony Is vcrrj ihort. The bride wean her hair loose.) and hai; a gold band around her head. Her present! and her dowry are gonn erally reindeer, and ihe and ber brlde-j groom remain with her parents for sj year after marriage. |