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Show Mark Twain is keeping Mother Eve's diary in Harper's Monthly these days and it is filled with droll doings. Eve cannot knock down the apple because she cannot throw straight; Adam picks up the first live coal, but changes his mind and drops it; Eve roasts the 'first apples and at first sight after clearing off the ashes is disappointed, for the skins of the apples have burst, but on trying try-ing them finds them better than before cooking. When she found she could talk she talked all, .day and night; when she found' Adam she parsed him: "Nominative, he; dative, him; possessive, his'n." So the droll story runs on; the world's first love; the world's first sorrow; the world's original ignorance; ig-norance; but the same old human nature, the ' same wants and fears the same old Mark Twain, J with his want of reverance and his disposition to make a joke out of even the world's creation. |