The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852Various
History
The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
"It is a wonder that some report how that the tooth of a badger, or his
left foot bound to a man's right arm will strengthen the memory." Boys,
who have lessons to learn, may like to know that fact; and teachers, who
have idle pupils, must not flog, but feed them upon cresses. "Cresses
eaten make a man industrious." Young ladies, who believe in their
ancestors, will thank us for repeating their opinion that the use of a
ring, which was lain for a certain time in a sparrow's nest, will
procure love. Nor need any dread the penalties of matrimony, since the
man who carries with him a hartshorn "shall alwaies have peace with his
wife:" and also, "the heart of a male quail, carried by the man, and the
heart of a female quail, by the woman, will cause that no quarrels can
ever arise between them." The man who carries a quail's heart in his
pocket may face his wife, and never have to feel his own heart quailing
underneath his ribs.
Old Parr dined probably upon serpents, not, as is commonly reported,
upon pills. "It is known that stags renew their age by eating serpents;
so the phoenix is restored by the nest of spices shee makes to burn
in. The pelican hath the same virtue, whose right foot, if it be put
under hot dung, after three months a pelican will be bred from it.
Wherefore some physicians, with some confections, made of a viper and
hellebore, and of some of the flesh of these creatures, do promise to
restore youth, and sometimes they do it." If the Zoological Society has
proper respect for our ancestors, they will not delay to sow a hot-bed
with pelicans' feet. Young shoots of pelican would be much more
appropriate beside the gravel-walks than your mere vegetable
pelargonium.
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