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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

by Frank H. Stauffer

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Charm for the Ague

This charm for the ague, on “St. Agnes’ Eve,” is recited up the chimney, in England, by the eldest female in the family—

“Tremble and go!
 First day shiver and burn;
 Tremble and quake!
 Second day shiver and learn;
 Tremble and die!
 Third day never return.”

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