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teaches that strangers, however fair to appearance, are not to be taken into confidence until we know somewhat of their character.

It was customary in Shetland for sons to marry and take their wives into their father's house, and often two or even three families might be found under one roof. But it generally happened that such families did not live in that harmony which ought to pervade the domestic circle, and here are a few old sayings having reference to this condition of things: