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208 P. 139. The "untying the shoe" is very interesting in connection with the Levirate ceremony of "loosing the shoe," which is not confined to the Jews. The shoe is intimately connected with weddings in the mythology and folk-lore of all Asiatics.

P. 141. The dirge of a hunter seems modern in form.

The woman's dirge appears to run—

P. 137. The tales of heroes sung at marriages would be very interesting to collect: in some cases they are probably taken from books, such as are read in the Lebanon, but if they are merely oral they might be valuable.

The war song which records the news being sent to Damascus to a "King" seems to be probably ancient, going back to the 8th or 9th