The older brother of my brother-in-law, who came to preside over the arrangement, being required to sign his name, began to tremble, and, with much embarrassment, wrote down his own name on the paper with one mistake! Some cunning fathers, before the coming of the girl’s friends, provide a room magnificently for his son’s study, borrowing a pile of books from the boys in the neighborhood, and, in fact, arrange everything so nicely, that it is hardly possible at first to tell whether the room is the boy’s study or merely a bookstore. When both parties feel satisfied each with the other, they enter into a written agreement called “_log-no pottrica_,” which records every arrangement respecting the marriage. In the evening of a fixed day, the parties meet at the house of the bride, where the family priest is required to write the instrument, and an astrologer to appoint a day for the wedding ceremony, and the other friends to be witnesses. Before commencing to write, the priest marks the paper with dots of red and yellow powders, writes the name of “_Doorga Ramà_,” &c., on the top, and other things below. The following is the form of the agreement or “_log-no pottrica_”:-- “SREE SREE DOORGA.” “THE WELL-WISHER, RAM CHUNDER DEB.” “Hereby in this happy writing, I promise to marry my first son, Sree Deno bundoo Deb, with your second daughter, Sree motly Modhoo Bindoo Debee, on the 24th of June, 9½ P. M., 1859. I promise, also, to pay all the expenses that shall occur on the occasion, provided you will give all the gold ornaments to your daughter, &c.” * * * * * The father of the girl writes a similar one, answering to and approving the points suggested in the other, and congratulating the proposed _Bai-ba-hick_[5] with a good will.