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Updated: June 9, 2025
t was the big central taproot which baffled them. They had hewed easily through the great side roots, large as branches, covered with soft brown bark; they had dug down and cut through the forest of tender small roots below; but when they had passed the main body of the stump and worked under it, they found that their hole around the trunk was not large enough in diameter to enable them to reach to the taproot and cut through it.
They went and looked at the hole where the stump had stood. At the bottom was the white remnant of the taproot where it had burst under the strain. "It wasn't so much how he pulled up the stump," said the girl faintly. "But but did you see his face, boys, after he heaved the stump up? I just pick that stump up, will you?"
You, of course, would have been very cold sitting there on a September night, without the least bit of clothes on your wet back; but Tom was a water baby, and therefore felt cold no more than a fish. Suddenly he saw a beautiful sight. A bright red light moved along the riverside, and threw down into the water a long taproot of flame.
Britain is altogether small, the mere taproot of her extended empire: Scotland, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are great, and rich, and growing, like his own.
The taproot from which squatter sovereignty grew and flourished, was the instinctive attachment of the Western American to local government; or to put the matter conversely, his dislike of external authority.
The most curious feature was the straight taproot of a tree which descended from above, about the size of a cable, uniform in shape from the top to the bottom. It had apparently made its way through a cleft in the rock, and penetrated downwards till it reached the floor of the apartment.
True, there may be outward reformation of habits, etc., but, if we grasp the thought that the taproot of sin is selfishness, this impotence becomes clearer, and it is seen that sin affects all our being, and that therefore the healing must come from beyond us. In salt we may include the whole divine energy; the Word, the Christ, the Spirit. So the intention of the Gospel is mainly to make clean.
Yet the canon's reticence had its taproot in the natural man who perforce did his strong deeds simply. "Good night," he added cheerily, putting out his hand. "I find that I can get a train back soon." A few minutes before eleven o'clock Shelby and his wife got out of a carriage at a west-side ferry.
There is a supreme faith among common people it is, indeed, the very taproot of democracy that although the unfriendly one may persist long in his power and arrogance, there is a moving Force which commands events.
The taproot had been too deep for them to break off, and now from it there was springing up this unexpected stem, this sole survivor of their race who turned away from what had been the flaming breath of life in their brazen nostrils, back to the green fragrance of their mutilated and forgotten forests.
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