DUNMOW FLITCH.
TWO LOVING COUPLES TAKE THE BACON. (SYDNEY "SUN" SPECIAL.) (Received August 6, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 5.' At the Dunmow flitch ceremony, two married couples underwent an amusing cross-examination for three hours. Both were awarded flitches of bacon, and were carried from the grounds in triumph. The judge said it was a proud record for a couple to have lived together for twenty-five years without having given or taken offence. [The Dunmow flitch is given to amy married couple who, at the close of the first year of their marriage, can take their oath that they have, never once wished! themselves unmarried again, and that there had been no jar of quarrel. The custom was' originated in Great Dunmow, Essex, by Robert Fitzwalter in 1244.] m?M\& Wfl'.ct: m. -s. « ;
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 August 1913, Page 5
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131DUNMOW FLITCH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 August 1913, Page 5
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