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Lavendar's church " "Good gracious!" said William King. "They were not enough. So I used a charm. I made a drink " "Ah!" said the doctor, frowning. "What was in the drink, Miss Philly?" "Perhaps it was not the right herb," she said; "it may have been 'mother-wort'; but the book said 'monk's-hood, and I " William King reached for his whip and cut Jinny across the flanks.
A line had been drawn through this last word, and another word written above it; but the ink was so faded, the page so woolly and thin with use, that it was impossible to decipher the correction; perhaps it was "mother-wort," an herb Philly did not know; or it might be "mandrake"? It looked as much like one as the other, the writing was so blurred and dim.
Here from the rafters hung the dried, odoriferous herbs sage, summer-savory, and mother-wort; bottles of cucumber ointment and of a liniment made from angle-worms famous for cuts and bruises; strings of dried apples and pumpkins; black beans in their withered pods; sweet clover for the linen and I know not what else besides.
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