There's another "folk cure" that my father used on me occasionally. It was EXTREMLY EFFECTIVE! And as we lived out in the woods, it was very available and cost my father nothing ... but it cost me dearly.

It was a cure for BAD BEHAVIOR. The cure went like this: He would hand me a knife and send me out to the woods to cut a switch. And it had to be a BIG SWITCH. Then he would lay me across his lap and apply that magic switch to my behind. But he would always preface it by saying: "This hurts me more than it hurts you."

The cure was perfect. I don't ever remember repeating the same bad behavior ... I had to come up with new one! bob(deckman)nelson