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Show . WHOOPING COUGH CHARM. "Will yon pleaae give mother a nut to put a apidcr inf Bahy's got whooping whoop-ing rough." That waa the request of a mall child to a Tiverton tradesman. For in the west countrv they, bare whooping couch and know the cure. Yon get a live spiiler and a nut. Into tha nutshell von put the spider, 'fts the charm around baby ' Beck. And when the spider dies, as ha most very soon the whooping congh goes. It is the belief in the charm the mascot. And one would like to find anyone without that undertow of belief ia" tha ebarra. London f'broairla. |