None of us, treated with the celebrated unguent, observed the swelling to diminish; none of us found that the pain and discomfort was in the least assuaged by the sticky varnish formed by the juices of the crushed _tigno_.

It is not easy to believe that others are more successful, but the popular renown of the specific survives in spite of all, probably thanks to a simple accident of identity between the name of the remedy and that of the infirmity: the Provencal for "chilblain" is _tigno_.

From the moment when the chilblain and the nest of the Mantis were known by the same name were not the virtues of the latter obvious?
So are reputations created.
In my own village, and doubtless to some extent throughout the Midi, the _tigno_--the nest of the Mantis, not the chilblain--is also reputed as a marvellous cure for toothache.

It is enough to carry it upon the person to be free of that lamentable affection.

Women wise in such matters gather them beneath a propitious moon, and preserve them piously in some corner of the clothes-press or wardrobe.