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The Harvester

CHAPTER XV
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These selections were all made for a purpose.
Now here is wafer ash; it is for music as well as medicine.

I have invoked all good fairies to come and dwell in this hedge, and so I had to provide an orchestra for their dances.

This tree grows a hundred tiny castanets in a bunch, and when they ripen and become dry the wind shakes fine music from them.

Yes, they are medicine; that is, the bark of the roots is.

Almost without exception everything here has medicinal properties.


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