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slender white 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 somewhere, sending out dozens 

 of sharp-pointed, healthy shoots, every joint pre 

 pared 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 branch of them roots 

 somewhere ; and that you cannot pull out one 

 without making a general internal disturbance, 



