We had got some liquorice root to chew.

They will chew anything from a piece of India rubber shoe to slippery elm and liquorice root.

A modern decoction is prepared from the herb with boiling water poured on the leaves, and with liquorice root and honey added.

Mr. Poole, in his Statistics of Commerce, states that the consumption of liquorice root and paste in this country averages 500 tons per annum.

"But not liquorice root," added Podge.