WILD WOOING.
0 There are many ways of going awooing. It is the custom of the aboriginal Australian to start out with the predetermined purpose of capturing a wife much as he would on a hunting excursion. He wanders about until he finds a maiden who he thinks will suit his special requirements, and then he steals up behind her, knocks her down, and takes her home on his shoulder.
When a young Eskimo boy has killed his first Polar bear unaided, and thus given proof that he is capable of providing for a family, he sets forth at night to get a wife. The first girl he can catch unawares he grasps, and attempts to carry her off to his hut. Tin object of his violent affection screams and scratches and bites until she frees herself, when she immediately takes to | her heels.
The young wife-seeker starts in puisuit, and when lie coiusc u]i with his quarry again more sera telling and kicking and hiting follow, and usually tin girl succeeds in freeing herself. If lh» suitor again overtakes the maiden, she liec-omes reconciled to her fate, and willingly accompanies the young Eskimo to his home as his ivife.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 66, 7 March 1908, Page 3
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200WILD WOOING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 66, 7 March 1908, Page 3
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