The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-29
[For the HERALD.
A SNAKE STORY.

III th9 garden or Eden, ana hVe
And of Adsm, the first Of the race;
How the snake did the woman deceive;
How the pair Of them left in disgrace;
How thetroubles and trials Of life
On our father and mother then fell;
How the very first husband and wife
Were convinced of probable hell,
We've All read; but tits funny to me
Why a snake should go running
around
With an apple, the fruit OF the tree
Which with evil and good did abound
And the strangeness Of such sn affair
Curiosity in me awoke;
And it seemed that some person shCul1
dare
All the facts in this case to invoke.
In the search for the truth which wss
made
We discovered an Eden Gazette
Ofthe tenth day of Msrch-I'm afraid
You'll invite me the paper to get,
So I'll tell you the age is go great,
And SO pale has the printing become
That you hardly could make out the date,
And the fact is we guessed st it some;
But we saw that the year was the first,
That the volume was sure No. l,
That John Smith wrote the article
"CURsED,"
Which the editor commented on.
And the story which Smith did relate
Was undoubtedly true, rs you'll
know;
For it seems that he sat near the gate,
And he watched the entire apple show.
Here's the tale; you m ay laugh, sigh, or
weep;
But you'll readily see by it's tone
That poor Adam, while lying asleep,
Was no match for John Smith, as
you'll own.
Mr.. Editor-Herewith l send
An occCunt of the doings OF Eve,
In the hope that her Weys she will mend
And no longer poor Adam deceive.
YOU'RE sWara that the orchard next
East
Ia now owned BY a fellow named
Snaik;
He's kind of dude-he's beast
With two legs and voices mistake.
His moustaohe, though, charmed Eve,
and she grinned
As he passed Eden's gate one fine
day.
Ever since then she felt she had sinned,
Ard was spoony when he was away.
So she stuck il her hair big rose,
And she washed herself clean in the
lake;
And while Adam still slept, suppose
She then snesked down the lot to see
Snsik.
And the fellow jumped oV or the fence,
With splendid ripe apple in hand,
And they soon got to talking no sense
While they squaLtsd right down in the
sand.
She told Snaik that his moustache was
And that Adams was not rear 80
large.
Wbyl your feet are no bigger than
mine;
You know Adams are big as a barge"
Don't let's talk about Adam. my
Said Tom Snaik; g Let him sleep if he
can;
You can see at a Rlance-now don's
fear
Am not much fuer built MANI"
Then said Eve, You are handsome,
tits true;
And 1 VOW, if chance had had,
would rather than Adam picked you.
But Couldn't; Iswsrn, it's too badi"
( Eat this apple" said Snaik, OF is |
ripe;
It's the best that the market affords;
Take bite-just bit-'twili not grippe;
IT'S far better than those of the
Lords"
And ahe did take bite Of the fruit,
Which Tom Snaik had filed full Ct
drug;
Ard this Issc4lly, cowardly brute
Called poor Adam " a sorry old bug"
This foul drug Ger the sense Of Eve
Had begun 10 bemuddle her brain,
And at last she began to believe
She would never see Adam sgain.
3ut you know how it ia when snake
With tWo legs finds q woman who's
green
quite too often her heart has to breGk
A, she hads all the world knows she's
mean.