Roots, you are a person who has been standing for hours on the bleak and cheerless po…

Roots, I am a member of the family of the Bleachers, and am a native of Germany. My root is long and slender, and my leaves are few and small.…

Fatigue and exposure, I think, must have rendered me unconscious, for I must have remained in a state of privation and fatigue for several hours.…