THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER 



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safest not to nibble any plant that is strange to you. 

 Nor am I suggesting that you make a meal on the 



pitch of the pine trees 

 or anything else. 

 Do not eat any of 

 these things ; 

 taste them 

 only. I was 

 once made 

 desperately ill 



VIRGINIA CREEPER 



by eating poke root (I was 



a very little child) which 



I took for sweet potato. 



Poke berries are not good to 



eat. Take along a few good 



sandwiches from home to eat. 



But learn to know the mints, the 



medicinal roots and barks, and 



that long list of old-fashioned 



" herbs" that our grandmothers hung from the garret 



rafters and made us take occasionally as " tea." 



