The cottages and the village life of rural England . warts by histouch. He said it was a special gift vouchsafed to him by the 101 COTTAGES OF RURAL ENGLAND Almighty. A friend of mine had from childhood a wart on hishand. He went to this Reading tradesman, who after applyinghis finger to his mouth touched the wart, and after a secondapplication it entirely disappeared. Another way of curing wartsis to prick them with a pin, which you must then stick intothe bark of an ash-tree and repeat the rhyme : Ashen-tree, ashen-tree. Pray buy these warts from me. The ash and the maple are wonder-working
The cottages and the village life of rural England . warts by histouch. He said it was a special gift vouchsafed to him by the 101 COTTAGES OF RURAL ENGLAND Almighty. A friend of mine had from childhood a wart on hishand. He went to this Reading tradesman, who after applyinghis finger to his mouth touched the wart, and after a secondapplication it entirely disappeared. Another way of curing wartsis to prick them with a pin, which you must then stick intothe bark of an ash-tree and repeat the rhyme : Ashen-tree, ashen-tree. Pray buy these warts from me. The ash and the maple are wonder-working trees. They willgive long life to children who are passed through their will cure paralysis, and are sometimes called in thecountry palsy worts, which accords with the notions of oldmedical writers, who termed these lovely flowers Herba paralysis. With real reluctance we must leave the pleasant paradise ofa little cottage garden and try to find other treasures of villagelife, wandering away into fresh fields and pastures new. 102. LILAC AND APPLE BLOSSOMS, HARVIXGTON, WORCESTER Harvington, in Worcestershire, is on the Avon River that flowsthrough Stratford, and is associated with sundry schemes for itsearlv navigation, a lock having been placed there below the is a simple cottage by the wayside, sketched in the spring-time, when the apple-trees and lilacs are in full blossom. Thereis nothing very remarkable about the little house, which is of half-timber construction and thatched, of not very early date, as thelarge panels indicate. The housewife wears one of those charmingold-fashioned white bonnets which are not very common now, andhas been feeding her fowls. Cottage-bred fowls are wonderfullayers, probably because they receive more care and attentionthan in a large farmyard. XNEATH THE SHADOW OF THE CROSSThe artist has depicted for us several beautiful examples of oldvillage crosses, which still adorn many a churchyard or market-place. Some of the
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