Mrs. B. I’ve always hearn it was wonderful in hives, and measly ailments.
Mrs. R. Well, it’s jist as good for an ager—it’s a powerful sweat. Mrs. Clarkson told me, that her cousin Betsey’s aunt Sally’s Nancy was cured sound and well by it, of a hard shakin’ ager.
Mrs. S. Why you don’t tell me so!
Mrs. R. Oh bess your heart, honey, it’s every word true; for she told me so with her own mouth.
Mrs. S. A hard, hard shakin’ ager!
Mrs. R. Oh yes, honey, it’s the truth.
Mrs. S. Well, I’m told that if you’ll wrap the inside skin of an egg round your little finger, and go three days reg’lar to a young persimmon, and tie a string round it, and every day, tie three knots in it, and then not go agin for three days, that the ager will leave you.
Mrs. B. I’ve often hearn o’ that, but I don’t know about it. Some people don’t believe in it.
Mrs. S. Well, Davy Cooper’s wife told me she didn’t believe in it; but she tried it, and it cured her sound and well.
Mrs. R. I’ve hearn of many folks bein’ cured in that way. And what did they do for Lucy’s cough, Mis’ Barney?