Tales and Novels — Volume 05: Tales of a Fashionable LifeEdgeworth, Maria
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Tales and Novels — Volume 05: Tales of a Fashionable Life
Edgeworth, Maria
Fiction
Take a handful of these herbs following--Wormwood, Sage, Broom-flowers,
Clown’s-All-heal, Chickweed, Cumphry, Birch, Groundsell, Agremony,
Southernwood, Ribwort, Mary Gould leaves, Bramble, Rosemary, Rue,
Eldertops, Camomile, Aly Campaigne-root, half a handful of Red
Earthworms, two ounces of Cummins-seeds, Deasy-roots, Columbine, Sweet
Marjoram, Dandylion, Devil’s bit, six pound of May butter, two pound of
Sheep suet, half a pound of Deer suet, a quart of salet oil beat well in
y’ boiling till the oil be green--Then strain--It will be better if you
add a dozen of Swallows, and pound all their Feathers, Gizzards, and
Heads before boiling--It will cure all aches--[9]
[_Beneath this valuable recipe, Mr. Hodgkinson’s testamentary
dispositions continued as follows_.]
All I am worth in the world real or personal--
To Collar a Pig.
Take a young fat pig, and when he is well scalded, cut off his head,
then slit him down the back, take out his bones, lay him in a dish of
milk and water, and shift him twice a day--for the rest, turn to page
103.
To my step-daughter Almeria, who is now at Elmour Grove in her
eighteenth year--
[_Written across the above in red ink_.]
Mem’m--I prophecy this third day of August, that the man from Hull will
be here to-morrow with _fresh_ mullets.
And as girls go, I believe a good girl, considering the times--but if
she disoblige me by marriage, or otherwise, I hereby revoke the same.
[_Written diagonally in red ink_.]
Mem’m--Weight of the Big Bullock, 90 score, besides offal.
[_The value was so pale it could not be deciphered_.]
And I further intend to except out of my above bequest to my daughter
Almeria, the sum of ...
A fine method to make Punch of Valentia dram. v. page 7.
Ten thousand pounds, now in Sir Thomas Stock’s my banker’s hands as a
token of remembrance to John Hodgkinson of Hull, on account of his being
my namesake, and, I believe, relation--
* * * * *
[_Continuation in the last leaf of the prayer-book_.]
It is my further intention (whenever I find said honest attorney fit
for my will) to leave sundry mourning rings with my hair value
(_blank_)--one in particular to Charles Elmour, sen. esquire, and also--
[_Upside down, in red ink_.]
Mem’m--Yorkshire Puddings--Knox says good in my case.
Hodgkinson late Hannah A Turnbull (my wife) her prayer book, born Dec’r
5th, 1700, died Jan’y 4th, 1760; leaving only behind her, in this world,
Almeria Turnbull (my step daughter).
Also another mourning ring to Frederick, the son of Charles Elmour, Esq.
and ditto to Ellen his daughter, if I have hair enough under my wig.
[_Diagonal in red ink_.]
Mem’m--To know from Dr. Knox by return of post what is good against
sleep--in my case--
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