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and is then considered marriageable but not before. If a young man is pleased with a girl before this period, he speaks for her, and if her parents are willing he should have her, he then fetches what venison etc. he kills to her, and she cannot marry any other, but he cannot take her as his wife till after this first separation. They then take each other for life, and if either forsakes the other, that one is liable to be whipped and cropped by the women of the town. Young women, & young men must always have the consent of their parents before marrying. Nettle