The abbess of Andoüillets , which, if you look into the large set of provincial maps now publishing at Paris , you will find situated amongst the hills which divide Burgundy from Savoy , being in danger of an Anchylosis or stiff joint (the sinovia of her knee becoming hard by long matins), and having tried every remedy⸺first, prayers and thanksgiving; then invocations to all the saints in heaven promiscuously⸺then particularly to every saint who had ever had a stiff leg, before her⸺then touching it with all the relics of the convent, principally with the thighbone of the man of Lystra , who had been impotent from his youth⸺then wrapping it up in her veil when she went to bed—then crosswise her rosary—then bringing in to her aid the secular arm, and anointing it with oils and hot fat of animals⸺then treating it with emollient and resolving fomentations⸺then with poultices of marsh-mallows, mallows, bonus Henricus, white lillies and fenugreek—then taking the woods, I mean the smoak of ’em, holding her scapulary across her lap⸺then decoctions of wild chicory, water-cresses, chervil, sweet cecily and cochlearia⸺and nothing all this while answering, was prevailed on at last to try the hot baths of Bourbon ⸺so having first obtain’d leave of the visitor-general to take care of her existence—she ordered all to be got ready for her journey: a novice of the convent of about seventeen, who had been troubled with a whitloe in her middle finger, by sticking it constantly into the abbess’s cast poultices, etc. —had gained such an interest, that overlooking a sciatical old nun, who might have been set up forever by the hot-baths of Bourbon , Margarita , the little novice, was elected as the companion of the journey.
An old calesh, belonging to the abbesse, lined with green frize, was ordered to be drawn out into the sun—the gardener of the convent being chosen muleteer—led out the two old mules, to clip the hair from the