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    How to Make an Eel Pie, 1465

    Boil for a while an eel which has been skinned…

    How to Manage Your Anger, c. 1150

    One who is inclined to wrath should take rose and less sage…

    How to Make a Turnip Jack-o-Lantern, 1873

    Another common amusement at this season of the year is to make a turnip lantern…

    How to Cure a Cough, 1651

    And a little Frog climbing up a tree, if any one shall spit in his mouth…

    How to Make an Apple Toddy, 1869

    Apple Toddy. Two wine glasses of ‘Apple Jack’; one tablespoonful…

    How to Eat in Autumn, 1600

    Autumne beginneth, when the sunne entreth the first degree of Libra…

    How to Shower, 1867

    An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, 1844

    How to Succeed at University, 1471

    Anyone attending any lecture must… have his own copy of the reading…

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