yarb

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• A sort of yarb-doctors in their way, poets have it that for sore hearts, as for sore lungs, nature is the grand cure. —  The Confidence-Man
• The Lord sartinly had women in mind when He made the yarb, and a kindly feelin 'fur their infarmities, and, I dare say, they be grateful accordin' to their knowledge. " —  Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks
• Bill, ye have sartinly got the right idee techin 'the makin' of tea and coffee, fur the yarb should be steeped, and the berry, too, -- leastwise, arter it's biled up once or twice, -- and therefore it be only reasonable that the nozzles should be closed moderately tight; but a man wants considerable experience in the business, or he's likely to overdo it jest a leetle, and ef ye don't cut some slots in them wooden corks ye've driven into them nozzles, Bill, there'll be a good deal of tea and coffee floatin 'round in yer corner of the fireplace afore many minits, and I conceit there'll be a man about yer size lookin' fur a couple of corks and pieces of jugs out there in the clearin ', too. " —  Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks
• Ye've wasted a gill of the yarb, and a quarter of a pound of the berry; and ye must hurry up with another outfit of bottles, or we'll have nothin 'but water to drink at the dinner. " —  Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks
• Two dollars, that's two hundred cents; that's eight hundred farthings; that's two thousand mills; and all for one little box of yarb-medicine. —  The Confidence-Man

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