A CURIOUS CUSTOM.
The district known as the Eden Valley, in Westmorland, still observes a most peculiar custom. Sometimes rows of hen's eggs are placed in windows,./ and strangers wonler why. Two .ordinary eggs in the window denotes a married couple are in residence, whilst a bantam's egg represents each child. It a parent dies, his or her egg is painted black, and, after a yiar, is removed altogether. Should en/ of the family leave or die a snsa'l egg is taken away. Should a wi:!o - .v or widower marry again, she or he is represented by a couple, which means there would be three largo eggs. Bachelor or spinster occupants for some reason or othor are exempt. On one occasion there was a window bedecked in one village with sixteen eggs, registering th-s parents as each twice married, an 1 twelve children, including three sets of twin 3.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 743, 6 February 1915, Page 3
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149A CURIOUS CUSTOM. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 743, 6 February 1915, Page 3
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