At last the old fellow hit upon the notion of using it as leather to mend shoes; so half his customers walked about the world on bacon heels.
So far as I could discover, the cottage folk did not now use many herbs.

They made tea sometimes of the tormentil, whose little yellow flowers appear along the furrows.

The leaves of the square-stemmed figwort, which they called 'cresset' or 'cressil,' were occasionally placed on a sore; and the yarrow--locally 'yarra'-- was yet held in estimation as a salve or ointment.
It would be possible for any one to dwell a long time in the midst of a village, and yet never hear anything of this kind and obtain no idea whatever of the curious mixture of the grotesque, the ignorance and yet cleverness, which go to make up hamlet life.

But so many labourers and labouring women were continually in and out of the kitchen at Lucketts' Place that I had an opportunity of gathering these items from Mrs.Luckett and Cicely.

Years since they had employed even more labour, before machinery came into use so much: then as many as twenty-four women might have been counted in one hayfield, all in regular rank like soldiers, turning the hay 'wallows' with their rakes.