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her to perform that office. The bride, therefore, goes into
the room of some female friend living in the house, and
there awaits the coming of her mother-in-law ;
the husband
meanwhile sits down on a mat in the open veranda
outside his mother's room.
The lady, having ascertained the whereabouts of her
daughter-in-law, goes and fetches her, and brings her
into the room. She bids her sit down on a mat spread
for the purpose. Then she goes out to her son in the
veranda, and leads him in, and tells him to sit by his
wife's side. When they are seated side by side, the
mother waves a live fowl over her son and daughter-inlaw
with a hastily muttered invocation for future health
and prosperity.
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