A SINGULAR CUSTOM
A traveller among the Boers of South Africa thus describes a singular custom among the people of that country: " When a girl is born, she is given ahei. fer which belongs to the girl, who ia to pay the cost of tending and feeding it. Every second bull call — born of the heifer or her female descendants — belongs to the parents. When the girl comes to a marriageable age she does not go empty-handed to husband; but has a herd — sorastimes as many as a hundred head — all her own right. By the time she has finished her education she has cows enough to form a dairy, which she manages for herself — celling the milk butter and sometimes cheese. There is therefore no sudden drain on her parents' means when she marries." The sons do not have the same privilege. They must marry some other man's daughter !
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1871, 17 February 1892, Page 4
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150A SINGULAR CUSTOM Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1871, 17 February 1892, Page 4
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