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Friend: Five cents.
Self: All right; you can have ’em.
No more need be said, and no money need be paid. The warts know they are fixed when they hear such a conversation, and they make haste to leave.
Handle a toad, and you will have warts.
To cure a wart, rub a piece of raw meat on it, and throw the meat into the well, drain, or other place where it will decay quickly. Tell no one; and when the meat has decayed, the wart will have disappeared.
A wart can be charmed away in like manner by the use of a bean instead of the meat. “I know that’s so, because I’ve tried it myself. The wart went off. I don’t care whether any one believes it or not—it’s so!”
Some claim it is best, after rubbing your warts with the bean, to write a polite note to the warts, requesting them to go ta somebody else, whose name you give. Wrap the bean in the note, and throw the whole into the well. The warts will presently leave you, and appear on that other person.
A certain young man was afflicted with warts. Indeed, none of his acquaintance was encumbered to any like
