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Show j; ;S Ancient Ways of Greeting do yu greet a friend when V 'u meet him or her in the street? you shake hands or take oft your i l ,J0U aren'1 doing anything new. u re Just following old customs, 's a writer in London Answers ''.: 'gazme- In days of old, the join-f. join-f. hands vas equivalent to a treatyit meant that the nas were free of weapons. And :j- i the boldest of knights would off nis helmet among friends c - Mow that he wasn't afraid of a w on the head. Kissing, too, has . origin in earliest times. The freeks and Romans used to ''"' i friend3 and acquaintances Yery occasion. One old scholar : ' ill that is was Plite. wnen ,mf on anyone, to kiss first the ' n hu wUe f(jllowed by alJ children, and finally the dog and |