WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 4! 



ran back and into the original organic bunch of 

 original sin within the man. The only other 

 clergyman who came was from out of town, a 

 half Universalist, who said he would n't give 

 twenty cents for my figure. He said that the 

 snake-grass was not in my garden originally, that 

 it sneaked in under the sod, and that it could be 

 entirely rooted out with industry and patience. 

 I asked the Universalist-inclined man to take 

 my hoe and try it ; but he said he had n't time, 

 and went away. 



But, jubilate, I have got my garden all hoed 

 the first time ! I feel as if I had put down the 

 rebellion. Only there are guerillas left here and 

 there, about the borders and in corners, unsub- 

 dued, Forrest docks, and Quantrell grass, and 

 Beauregard pig-weeds. This first hoeing is a 

 gigantic task : it is your first trial of strength 

 with the never-sleeping forces of Nature. Sev- 

 eral times, in its progress, I was tempted to do 



