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ardent desire I constantly have to see him 

 avenged on all vile, cowardly, perjured and in 

 famous persecutors. 



243. When any one has told me, what it is 

 that makes " grass green," 1 shall be able to 

 tell him what it is that makes darkness preserve 

 turnips; and, in the meanwhile, lam quite con. 

 tent with a perfect knowledge of the effects. 



244. So far for the preservation while winter 

 lasts; but, then, how to manage the roots when 

 spring comes? Take the turnips out of the 

 heaps ; spread them upon the ground round 

 about, or any where else in the sun. Let them 

 get perfectly dry. If they lie a month in sun 

 and rain alternately, it does not signify. They 

 will take no injury. Throw them on a barns 



floor ; throw them into a shed; put them any 

 where out of the way ; only do not put them in 

 thick heaps ; for then they will heat, perhaps, 

 and grow a little. I believe they may be kept 

 the whole year perfectly sound and good ; but, 

 at any rate, I kept them thus, last year, 'till July, 

 245. Of saving seed I have some little to say, 

 I saved some, in order to see whether it degene 

 rated ; but, having, before the seed was ripe, 

 had such complete proof of the degeneracy of 

 cabbage seed; having been assured by Mr. 

 WILLIAM SMITH, of Great Neck, that the 



