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238 fairly begun. In spite of the accidental character of his birth, Momo and his descendants quickly achieved greatness, for this remote period is known as the time of Momo, or as the kingship of Momo. Wesleyan College, Nukualofa, Tonga.

Editor is indebted to Sir James Fraser for kindly forwarding the following notes.

Some six weeks before the wedding an old woman is sent round to invite the guests. She generally sings a rhyme in Welsh. A number of large pies are made after killing a sheep by cutting the mutton into small pieces and baking the pastry. There is often a procession of the guests to and from the church, and the wedding feast takes place in a large barn or shed. The guests sit at long tables on which the pies are spread, and the guests are expected to pay for their entertainment. A young man will bring with him four or five friends, young women or men, and he will pay six shillings for a pie, which they finish between them: he will also call for beer. Possibly the pie may have cost only one-and-sixpence; the profit is for the bride and bridegroom. Sometimes a plate is passed round for subscriptions, and the amounts are entered in a book, it being understood that when the givers come to be married they will receive equivalent presents. In old times such contributions could be recovered by force, but that custom has passed away, and it is only a gift. When two brothers have attended many weddings, and if one of them gets married, he, by consent, can receive his brother's share of the gifts as well as his own.

There are many commons belonging to the Lord of the Manor. The country folk had the right of grazing there, but not of enclosing the land. But if a man could succeed in making an