It ; is a pity we did net come across the following recipe prior to the Athletic Sports meeting when we might have made a book to the advantage of ourselves and the confusion of our enemies. We will howeve» make.-ohe' public- a present of the recipe, it is guaranteed of good age and French extraction. It is called, a magic garter and you make it -in this manner :— Gather some of the herb called motherwort, when the' sun is entering the first degree of the sign of Capricorn ; let it dry a litt'l6 in the shade, and make some garters of the skin of a young hare ; that is to say, having cut the skin of the hare into strips two inches wide, double tht'm, sew the beforementioned herb between, and wear them on your legs. No horse can long keep. up with a nian on foot, who ; is furnished with these garters." So the o'd people say.
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Manawatu Herald, 10 June 1893, Page 3
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