MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



root, it will be found to run under the 

 ground until it meets another slender 

 white root; and you will soon unearth 

 a network of them, with a knot some 

 where, sending out dozens of sharp- 

 pointed, healthy shoots, every joint 

 prepared to be an independent life and 

 plant. The only way to deal with it 

 is to take one part hoe and two parts 

 fingers, and carefully dig it out, not 

 leaving a joint anywhere. It will take 

 a little time, say all summer, to dig 

 out thoroughly a small patch; but if 

 you once dig it out, and keep it out, 

 you will have no further trouble. 



I have said it was total depravity. 

 Here it is. If you attempt to pull up 

 and root out any sin in you, which 

 shows on the surface, if it does not 

 show, you do not care for it, you may 

 have noticed how it runs into an interior 

 network of sins, and an ever-sprouting 



