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The Complete Works of Whittier

INTRODUCTION
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The wedding took place at Pennacook (now Concord, N.H.), and the ceremonies closed with a great feast.

According to the usages of the chiefs, Passaconaway ordered a select number of his men to accompany the newly-married couple to the dwelling of the husband, where in turn there was another great feast.

Some time after, the wife of Winnepurkit expressing a desire to visit her father's house was permitted to go, accompanied by a brave escort of her husband's chief men.

But when she wished to return, her father sent a messenger to Saugus, informing her husband, and asking him to come and take her away.

He returned for answer that he had escorted his wife to her father's house in a style that became a chief, and that now if she wished to return, her father must send her back, in the same way.


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