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Wives who wished for children wore them 

 tied round their bodies; and they were 

 brought into houses by the midwife, but 

 carried out, in the greatest haste, after child- 

 birth. 



Columella has recorded a variety of 

 wonderful stories respecting the garden- 

 cucumber; and some English authors, of 

 great celebrity, have stated, that when a 

 cucumber vine is growing, if you set a 

 pot of water, about five or six inches distance 

 from it, it will shoot so much in twenty- 

 four hours as to touch it: but that it will 

 shrink from oil, and turn fairly away from 

 it. 



The gourd 



And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive 

 Th' approaching olive, with resentment fly 

 Her fatty fibres, and with tendrils creep 

 Diverse, detesting contact. 



Phillips. 



