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Show Her4 Teals ltva. Amoug the Arabs of Cpper Rgypt the youth who proposes to a girl must submit to a whipping at th hand of her male relative; and, says a narrator, narra-tor, "II he wishes to be considered worth having, he must receive the chaallaement, which la sometime exceedingly ex-ceedingly aevere, vlth an expreaslon ot enjoyment." Notwithstanding, It 1 th maiden herself who Impose the teat The Bakalava girls of Madagascar Madagas-car make their lovers stand at a short distance from a clever Bpear-throwar and catch between the arm and side every spear thrown ut them. If the youth "dlaplny tear or fulls to ditch th spear, he Is Ignomliilously rejected, but It there be no flinching aud the spear are caught ho la at one proclaimed pro-claimed au acceptod lover." |