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branch of them roots somewhere ; and 

 that you cannot pull out one without 

 making a general internal disturbance, 

 and rooting up your whole being. I 

 suppose it is less trouble to quietly cut 

 them off at the top, say once a week, 

 on Sunday, when you put on your 

 religious clothes and face, so that no 

 one will see them, and not try to eradi 

 cate the network within. 



Eemarlc. This moral vegetable figure 

 is at the service of any clergyman who 

 will have the manliness to come forward 

 and help me at a day s hoeing on my 

 potatoes. None but the orthodox need 

 apply. 



I, however, believe in the intellectual, 

 if not the moral, qualities of vegetables, 

 and especially weeds. There was a 

 worthless vine that (or who) started up 

 about midway between a grape-trellis 

 and a row of bean-poles, some three 



