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Updated: July 6, 2026

"Thayer's the Highbelier; it's a high hairb, an' it's moighty foine fur the bowels when ye drink the dry root. Shure an' it shakes ivery toime the wind blows. "That's Clayvers," she said, picking up a Galium. "Now fwhat wud ye think that wuz fur to cure?" "I don't know. What is it?"

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

"Well, 'tain't the red wans, as ye moight think. Ye kin make it of Rosberries or Sumac or Huckleberries an' lots more, but Black Currants is redder than Red Currants, an' Squaw berries is best av them all." "What are they like?" "Shure, an' Oi'll show ye that same hairb," and they wandered around outside the shanty in vain search.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

"Ye kin make a koind of blue out o' the Indigo hairb, but 'tain't like this," pointing to some screaming cobalt, "an' if it ain't in the woods the good Lord niver meant us to have it. Yis!

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned