# The stone wall

Author: Casal, Mary, 1864-1935

Genre: Autobiography

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77938

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+stone+wall+Casal&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A few plants of mullein, commonly known in the East as “Indian tobacco,” showed themselves in my garden. Weeds. They must be hoed up, but the velvety sage green of the fuzzy leaves held my hand. My mind went back many years, recalling a sermon I once heard a Unitarian minister preach on the subject “What is weeds?” He prefaced his talk with the recital of an experience in his garden one morning, when a small boy, peeping through the fence, asked the usual question “What yer doin’?” The minister answered: “I’m pulling up weeds.” “What is weeds?” asked the boy. The memory of that sermon stayed with me for many years and now asserted itself. Who shall determine that such is a weed which must...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stone-wall-77938/chapters/24/index.md)