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fosterage

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Fosterage, we are told, was of two sorts, for affection and compensation.

Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.

Fosterage consisted in putting out the child to be reared by a tribesman who became its foster-father.

A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.

Marriage and fosterage between the English and Irish are forbidden, and declared to be high treason.

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