Medicinal 79
A good way to keep from having cramps is to wear an eelskin around your ankle.
Read gravestone epitaphs, and you will lose your memory.
When you want to go to sleep and can’t, count up to twenty-three hundred,
If that doesn’t work, just imagine a crow flying round and round up in the sky in large circles.
Sleep with a piece of steel under your pillow, and you will not have the rheumatism. I have heard of one woman who always put her scissors under her pillow, when bedtime came, for this purpose.
“Do you ever have the nightmare? Well, sir, my father used to have nightmare right along every night, He’d be all of a didder—shakin’ and shudderin’ till my mother’d take hold of him and wake him up. That'd bring him right out of ‘em.
“One time he went away from home, and it come night and they was sittin’ around in the tavern bar-room, and he told one o’ the men there that he really dreaded to go to bed. He told him how he always had the nightmare, and how, bein’ away from home, he wouldn’t have
