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THE DUNMOW FLITCH. TWO SOULS BEAT AS ONE. [By Electric Telecraph—Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.] London, August 5. At the ceremony of the Dunmow Flitch, two married couples provided an amusing cross-examination lor three hours, and both were awarded fliches of bacon, which they carried off the grounds in triumph. The judge said that for twentyfive years not to have given or taken offence was a record to be proud of.
(Little Dunmow is a village in Es sex, two miles south-east of Great Dunmow, and 32 miles from London on the Groat Eastern Railway 11 ero a flitch of bacon was given tc any married couple who, having been married a year and a day, will swear that they have not quarrelled once in that time, or repented of their al liance. At various times not very successful attempts have been made to revive the custom.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 6 August 1913, Page 5
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149BLISS UNALLOYED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 6 August 1913, Page 5
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