Tsingkiangpu, Ku, A remarkable case of mixing of brides has been reported from a place near Sutsien.
It seems that @ bride was being carried in her chair "to her new home. On the way a snow st came up and the chairmen stopped fo warm their hands in a wayside tea house. Feeling sorry for the bride, shivering In her chair, they. turged her to come in and get' warm. About this' me another bride's chair appeared and these_men_al Stopped to get warm. Finding bride in the tea shop they went out and told the girl in their chair also to come in and get warm.
After some minutes all started again but as the chairs were alike and the brides were confused in the snow they got In the wrong chairs.
Three days later the "inlaws" were invited to the homes of the new husbands fora feast. Their consternation can be imagined when the brides turned out not to be their own daughters. A lot of conjecture and questioning finally solved the. mystery.
Friends came out to "talk over" the matter and as it turned out the four homes were of about the same social and. financial station -it was decided to let the matter go as it had turned out. It was a practical and common sense solution: of 3 potentially very embarrassing situa tion.
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