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active sports. As soon as you find you are overburnt, put 

 cold cream, vaseline, sweet-oil, or grease of any kind on the 

 place, and keep it covered up. In a day or two you will be 

 well. 



But it is best to go slow. Do not get overdone at all, and 

 so have no damage to repair. 



Male-fern. 



Sweater: A famous woodman's sweater is tea made from 

 the leaves and twigs of hemlock. Make a gallon of about 

 two pounds of twigs, etc., and sip it all day. 



Tapeworm: Boil a pound of smashed-up male-fern or 

 evergreen fern root in a gallon of water till but a pint of 

 fluid is left. A teaspoonful three or four times a day — 

 followed by a purge — is a famous remedy. 



