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In olden days it used to be the custom for the clanspeople to place offerings of food on the flat table-stones for the shades of the departed ancestors, and this is sometimes the case still; but now it is more frequently the custom to make these offerings in the iing-seng, or clan puja-house.
But by and by it was the turn of the clanspeople to look on while the lady of the house and her sons danced a quadrille or two with their visitors; after which the chief and his brother pairing with the two elder girls, the ladies were astonished to find them the best they had ever waltzed with, although they did not dance quite in the London way.
If the three watchers are satisfied that there is no commotion within the tomb, then all is well, and they return and report the result to the clanspeople. This ceremony is called tanding, or the fire test. Next morning the woman who is the head of the iing-seng, or puja-house, distributes to all those who have taken part in these sacrifices the hinder portions of the sacrificial animals.
To Hector also, after their own fashion, would Rob of the Angels tell the tales that suggested the name his clanspeople gave him wonderful tales of the high mountain-nights, the actors in them for the most part angels.
To Hector also, after their own fashion, would Rob of the Angels tell the tales that suggested the name his clanspeople gave him wonderful tales of the high mountain-nights, the actors in them for the most part angels.
Taken all in all, the whole building often resembles a castle or fortress rather than a temple, in harmony with the austere, arid landscape, and the fierce, passionate, and idolatrous character of the clanspeople or inhabitants of the different regions. The principal entrance is usually small in comparison to the height and great mass of the building.
But by and by it was the turn of the clanspeople to look on while the lady of the house and her sons danced a quadrille or two with their visitors; after which the chief and his brother pairing with the two elder girls, the ladies were astonished to find them the best they had ever waltzed with, although they did not dance quite in the London way.
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