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Gi'eeley evidently has a political purpose. 

 He might just as well say that you should 

 not hill beans, when everybody knows that a 

 " hill of beans " is one of the most expres- 

 sive symbols of disparagement. When I 

 become too lazy to hill my corn, I too shall 

 go into politics. 



I am satisfied that it is useless to try to 

 cultivate " pusley." I set a little of it one 

 side, and gave it some extra care. It did 

 not thrive as well as that which I was fight- 

 ing. The fact is, there is a spirit of moral 

 perversity in the plant, which makes it grow 

 the more, the more it is interfered with. I 

 am satisfied of that. I doubt if any one has 

 raised more " pusley " this year than I have ; 

 and my warfare with it has been continual. 

 Neither of us has slept much. If you com- 

 bat it, it will grow, to use an expression that 

 will be understood by many, like the devil. 

 1 have a neighbor, a good Christian man, 

 benevolent, and a person of good judgment. 

 He planted next to me an acre of turnips 

 recently. A few days after he went to look 



