WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 37 



FOURTH WEEK. 



ORTHODOXY is at a low ebb. Only two 

 clergymen accepted my offer to come and 

 help hoe my potatoes for the privilege of 

 using my vegetable total-depravity figure 

 about the snake-grass, or quack-grass as 

 some call it ; and those two did not bring 

 hoes. There seems to be a, lack of disposi- 

 tion to hoe, among our educated clergy. I 

 am bound to say that these two, however, sat 

 and watched my vigorous combats with the 

 weeds, and talked most beautifully about the 

 application of the snake-grass figure. As, 

 for instance, when a fault or sin showed on 

 the surface of a man, whether, if you dug 

 down, you would find that it ran back and 

 into the original organic bunch of original 

 sin within the mane The only other clergy- 

 man who came was from out of town, a 

 half Universalist, who said he would n't give 



