. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. a Saxon household, I saw ione of the many child-brides. She was just fiffceeihad been married the day before; at the friendly < mans request, she had donned formeall her bridal finery. Pas^iiiLr ;i house in the village, I ob-served a number of pieces of vtwo or three feet long, leaning againstthe wall, and all numbered. Tllearned, were the contributions—pay-ment in kind—of the village childrenfor the schoolmaster. Bverychildbound to firing, tw;inls his supply offuel, so many pieces at stated tuand,
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. a Saxon household, I saw ione of the many child-brides. She was just fiffceeihad been married the day before; at the friendly < mans request, she had donned formeall her bridal finery. Pas^iiiLr ;i house in the village, I ob-served a number of pieces of vtwo or three feet long, leaning againstthe wall, and all numbered. Tllearned, were the contributions—pay-ment in kind—of the village childrenfor the schoolmaster. Bverychildbound to firing, tw;inls his supply offuel, so many pieces at stated tuand, in order to control the dclr,the house-number of the giver was putupon each. The master di uble himself with the matter: two of thebigger boys saw if all was right, wrote the numbers in a * Their original statis among the other inhabitants is shown by thecommunal laws existing in certain Saxon villages.—in Scharoech, for in-stance,—forbidding the people to go to Wallack weddings, or to dance atsuch with any of the Wallack population, under penalty of one pound of A C1ECUIT. 373 book, and the children, after school, then carried thewood they had brought their teacher into his woodshedor storehouse. In the Protestant church-porch, was hung up by aniron chain, a round stone, as large as a cannon , a girl who had lost her innocence was obligedto sit at the church door for a certain number of Sundays,with this stone round her neck; and, only after havingthus expiated her fault, was she allowed again to enterthe sacred edifice.* * This reminds of the arrangement in the ancient basilicas. In thenarthex or colonnade next to the church, which took the place of the ori-ginal atrium, those persons stood who were penitents, or who were notyet permitted to enter the church itself. See Fergusson, Handbook ofArchitecture.
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