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earth over them, and then planted the Corn on the ridge, 

 at a foot apart. We pulled tip the plants without cere- 

 mony, cut oiTtheir roots to halt' an inch long, cut olT their 

 leaves about eight inches down from their points, and, 

 with a long setting stick, stuck them about seven inches 

 info the ground down amongst the fresh mould and 

 ashes. 



216. This was on the first of July in the evening; 

 and, not willing to be laughed at too much, I thought I 

 would pause two or three days ; for, really, the sun 

 seemed as if it would bum up the very earth. At the 

 close of the second day, ncAvs was brought me, that the 

 Corn was all dead. I vent out and looked at it, and 

 though I saw that it was not dead, I suffered the ever- 

 lasting gloomy peal that my people rang in my ears to 

 extort from me my consent to the pulling up of the rest 

 of the plants and throwinr/ them aiiay ; consent which 

 was acted upon with such joy, alacrity, and zeal, tha* 

 the whole lot were lying under the garden fence in a 

 few minutes. My man intended to give them to the 

 oxen, from the charitable desire, I suppose, of annihi- 

 lating this proof of his master's folly. He would have 

 pulled up the two rows which we had transplanted ; but, 

 I would not consent to that ; tor, I was resolved, that 

 they should have a week's trial. At tlie end of the week 

 I went out and looked at them. I slipped out at a time 

 tchen no one ivas likely to see me! At a hundred yards 

 distance the plants looked like so many little Corn stalks 

 in November ; but, at twenty yards, 1 saw that all teas 

 right, and I began to reproach myself for having suffered 

 my mind to be thwarted in its purpose by opinions op- 

 posed to principles. I saw, that the plants were all 

 alive, and had begun to shoot in the heart. 1 did not 

 stop a minute. I hastened back to the garden to see 

 whether any of the plants, which lay in heaps, were yet 

 alive. 



217. Now, mind, the plants were put out on the first 

 of July ; the 15 succeeding days Mere not only dry, but 

 the very hottest of this gloriously hot summer. The 

 plants that had heen flu7ig away were, indeed, nearly 

 all dead; but, some, which lay at the bottoms of the 

 heaps, were not only alive, but had shot their roots into 



