CURIOUS OLD CUSTOM.
In Belfast there was until quite recently a curious old custom dating from quite two centuries ago. In the town there are two halls for selling linen, one of which is now used as offlceß, eto. This one is the Linen Hall proper, or White Linen Hali, in which the linen used to be sold unbleached, %hile bleached linen was sent to the former. A very long time ago some patriotic man endowed thia Brown Linen Hall, so that it cannot be sold ; and it was stipulated that a market was to be held every Friday. But when companies took up selling the linen, no one came to the old hall, so that it is now no longer of any use. Regularly, however, every Friday morning an old man opened the gates and put a single bale of unbleached linen up to auction. It was always the same old man, the linen was always the same bale, the time always the same, but no one ever came to bay, and very few people knew about it.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 52, 28 December 1899, Page 24
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179CURIOUS OLD CUSTOM. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 52, 28 December 1899, Page 24
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