Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 78
ily per-forming that operation for each other, as we by a rival, and also avoids losing much time.In the Lalos tribe of western China, the brideperches herself on the highest attainable branchof a large tree when the wedding morning ar-rives, while the mother, grandmother, aunts, andelderly female… … do. If so glad to see each other that hand-shaking does not express their joy, they rubshoulders until tired out. John shaves, not hisface, but his head and eyebrows; he whitenshis shoes; he wears a long gown, and car-ries a fan. He assumes the duties of milliner,laundress, and dressmaker; he pays…
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