I really think that gathering material to make medicines that will allay pain is the very greatest of all the great work a man can do." "Good!" cried Granny Moreland, her dark eyes snapping.

"I've always said it! I've tried to encourage David in it.

And he's just capital at puttin' some of his stuff in shape, and combinin' it in as good medicine as you ever took.

This spring I was all crippled up with the rheumatiz until I wanted to holler every time I had to move, and sometimes it got so aggravatin' I'm not right sure but I done it.

'Long comes David and says, 'I can fix you somethin',' and bless you, if the boy didn't take the tucks out of me, until here I am, and tickled to pieces that I can get here.