MARK TWAIN
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
MARK TWAIN
“Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water. You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there’s a spunk-water stump, and just as it’s midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in it and say:
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“Barley-corn, Barley-corn, Injun meal shorts, “Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,” |
and then walk away quick eleven steps, with your eyes shut and then turn round three times and walk home without speaking to anybody. Because if you do speak, the charm’s busted.
“I’ve took off thousands of warts that way, Huck. I play with frogs so much that I’ve always got considerable warts. Sometimes I take ’em off with a bean.”
“Yes, a bean’s good. I’ve done that.”