[ 10 ] thing to come to them by marriage, by what means they may without labour or trouble, get a trea- sure for their children. "First, Let such a one take care to have some shed or hovel made, to join to that side of his dwelling, that lies in the middle betwixt the north and east part of heaven, or forge other more convenient place, so as to admit the sun and air to it, but to keep off the rain. Under this pent-house or hovel, let him dig a large pit, and with the earth he digs out, let him make banks round the pit's mouth, so that it may keep the rain off on every side. This done, let him each day in every year, or whensoever he can conveniently, carry and throw into that pit these following matters, so long till his necessity forceth him to dig all out again, and see how much treasure he has got, even while he slept. Now these matters are all sharp and bitter herbs, growing in by-places amongst bushes, and on the way side, and such as beasts feed not on, as esula, cucuta or hemlock, henbane, fumatory, the thick stalks of tobacco, that are thrown away in those places, where it is planted, the hard stalks of colwort, which the beasts eat not of, and likewise all those things they leave in their troughs; likewise, fir-tops or apples if you have them at hand; also the leaves that fall from the trees in autumn are to be gathered; also pigeons dung, hens dung, birds and hens feathers; and ashes which women generally their lces with, and other ashes that is not fit for that use; as also fuel out of which the lee is already extracted; the soot of chimneys, hogs hair, and the horns of oxen and cows, and the bones the dogs eat not of. All these
