simpler

simpler
Less complicated or challenging.
2. noun
One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).

… may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour simpler is very liable to.


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