Scottish Marriage Tradition

There was a person in the eastern part of Scotland, who had fallen into a certain degree of discredit only a few years ago, from declining to uodergo a ceremony not uncommon in earlier times.

On the morning after marriage, the youth of both sexes, or perhaps females, were the principal participators, assembled along with the new married pair. A basket was transmitted among them, and gradually filled with stones, until reaching the bridegroom, when it was suspended from his neck. Then receiving some additional load, his affectionate helpmate, to testify her sense of the caresses he had lavished on her, cut the cord and relieved him of this oppressive burden.

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