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Rh than it is at present, it was the custom, in some parts of Scotland (when a bridegroom was not in circumstances to treat the guests at his marriage), for all who were invited to the wedding to pay each one penny, for dinner, dancing, &c. And although a shilling, or more, be now paid on such occasions, still they are called Penny-weddings. It is no very uncommon thing for the meeting at such weddings to be so numerous, as from the profits of it, to enable the new married pair to furnish their house, or take a small farm.