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The bride's arms and legs were pasted with red feathers, and then the old men of her husband's house said to her:

"Oh my daughter, you are here. For your sake your mothers, your fathers have become old men, old women. Now you approach the old women; already you begin the life of an old woman. Forever now leave childishness, girlishness; no longer are you to be like a child, no longer are you to be like a girl. Be most considerate; regard others with respect, speak well, greet them well. By night look to, take care of the sweeping, the laying of the fire. Arise in the deep of night."

"You poor one, move yourself, for you already abandon your mother forever. No longer are you to incline your heart; no longer are you to recognize your mother, your father, for you abandon them completely."


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