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    How to Defend Yourself From Basil, 1595

    An Italian, through the oft smelling of an hearb called Basil…

    How to Interview People Abroad, 1789

    A traveller’s memory will be greatly relieved, by putting down the questions he wishes to have answered…

    How to Make Your Own Lip Balm, 1595

    If one use to rub chapped or rough lippes with the sweate behind their eares…

    How to Win at Croquet, 1867

    It is often the case that you and an enemy may both be in position for the last bridge…

    How to Cure Seasickness, 1695

    Others assure me, That the best Remedy is, to keep always, night and day, a piece of Earth under the Nose…

    How to Intoxicate Waterfowl, 1777

    Way to intoxicate Water-Fowl. First clean, and then steep in clear Water…

    How to Train Your Cat to Do Tricks, 1869

    Cats may be taught to pull a bell-rope, to fire a pistol and a multitude of similar tricks…

    How to Harvest the Mandrake, 12th century

    It shines at night like a lamp, and when you see it mark it round quickly with iron…

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