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Rilonate specks married in threes... Two grooms and a bride, or two brides and a groom. In either case the spouse with the two counterspouses hadto alternate every day, being spouse to one, and then the next day to the other. Each Speck year the sequence is renewed, starting with the spouse who wasshorted by one day the previous year. The marriage ceremony of Rilonate was short and simple: The three specks went before the king on the assigned day oftheir marriage appointment; each stated their vows, which consisted only of a promise to abide by the custom of spouse alternating, and a promise to neverget ugly. The vows were repeated in this way: The king said to each speck, in-turn, Do you, ___, promise to never get ugly? To which each responded in turn,I do. Then, in the case of one groom and two brides, for example, the king said to the groom speck,
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