On the subject of removing warts, Khandu, I have a unfailing method. I rub a penny firmly on and around the wart- in a couple of days you can see the wart shrinking and wrinkly, and within a couple of weeks it is entirely gone. I have never known it to fail and I have done it many times.

The last one I did, earlier this year, was on the top of my hand for a year or more and the sight bothered me. I finally got around to doing something about it. Now all that's there is what appears to be a light brown freckle.

When I was a child, I saw an old man do that to a kid's wart- and he said he would have to throw away the penny. I never do. I have no idea whether there is copper transference or if I could just as reliably use a pebble or a raw egg. It's entirely possible that it has to do with my own trust and belief. But it does work.

Ebbie