I don't like to see a man give up his garden.

It means weeds." "Well, then, why don't you hoe them up, Sam ?" I said sharply.
"Hoe 'em up, lad?
I can't put a hoe in his mind, can I?
That's where the weeds grows, my dear lad.

Why, he never takes no interest in his guns now, and if I hadn't set to this morning to scour 'em out and give 'em a regular good cleaning, where would they have been when the French come ?".