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good word.
made out of rib taken from my body
This is at least doubtful, if not more
than that. I have not missed any rib
SATURDAY.-She fell in pond yes
terday, when she was looking at her
self in it, which she is always doing.
She nearly strangled, said it was most
uncomfortable. This made her sorry
for the creatures which lived in there,
which she calls fish, for she continues
to fasten names on to things that don't
need them and don't come when they
are called by them, which is matter
of no consequence to her, as she IS sucn
a numskull anyway; so she got lot OF
them out and brought them in last
night and put them in my bed to Keep
warm, but I have noticed them now
and then all day, and l don't see that
they are any happier there than they
were before, only happier.
SUNDAY Pulled through.
TUEsDAY.-She has taken up with
a snake now. The other animals are
GLAD, for she was always Xperimenting
with them and bothering them; and =!
am glad, because the snake talks, and
this enables me to get rest.
FRIDAY.-She says the snake advises
her to try the fruit of that tree, and
SAYS the result will be great and fine
and noble education. told her there
would be another result, too-it intro
duce death into the world. That was
a mistake-it had been better to keep
the remark to myself; it only gave her
an idea-she could save the sick buz-
zard and furnish fresh meat to the lions
and tigers. T advised her to keep
away from the tree. She said she
wouldn't. I foresee trouble. Willem-
igrate.
WEDNEsDAY.-I have had varie.
gated time. escaped that night, and
rode a horse all night rs fast 81 he
could 20, hoping to get clear out OF the
Park and hide in some other country
before the trouble should begin; but
it was not to be. About an hour after
sunup, as 1 was riding through flow
cry plain where thousands of animals
were grazing, slumbering or playing
with each other, accoidrng 10 their
wont, all of sudden they broke into
q tempest of frightful noises, and in
one moment the plain was in a frantic
commotion and every beast was
destroying its neighbor. / knew what
it meant-Eve had eaten that fruit
and death was come into the world.
The tigers ate my horse, paying
no attention when I ordered them to
desist, and they would even me if l
[ had stayed-which I didn't, but
went away in much haste. !
found this place, outside the Park, and
was fairly comfortable for few days,
but she had found me out. Found me
out, and has named the place Townada
says it looks like that. In fact l was
not sorry she came, for there are but
meagre pickings here, and she brought
some of those apples. was obliged to
eat them. was so hungry. 1t was
against my principles, but find that
principles have no real force except
when one is we'll fed. She came
curtained in boughs and bunches of
leaves, and when 1 asked her what
she meant by such nonsense and
snatched them away and threw them
down, she Uttered blushed. I had
never seen a person litter and blush
before, and to me it seemed unbecom-
ing and idiotic. She said | would
soon know how it was myself. This
was correct. Hungry as l was, laid
down the apple half eaten-certainly
the best one I ever saw, considering
the lateness of the seasOn-and arrayed
myslf in the discarded boughs aud
branches, and then spoke to her with
some severity and ordered her to go
and not make such 81 ectacle of her
self. She did it. and after this we
crept down to where the wild.beast
battle had been and collected some
skins, I made her patch together q
couple of suits proper for public occas-
ions. They are uncomfortable, ii is
true, but stylish, and that is the main
point about clothes. find she ls
good deal of a companion. 1 see l
should be lonesome and depressed
with out her, now that have lost my
property. Another thing, she says it
is ordered that we work for our living
hereafter. She will be useful. I will
NEXT YEAR We have named it
Cain. She caught it while I was up
country trapping on the North Shore
of the Erie; caught it in the timber a
couple of miles from our dug out-or
it might have been four, she isn't GER
tain which. 1t resembles US in some
ways, and may be relation. That is
what she thinks, but that is an error,
In my Judgment. The difference in
in size warrants the conclusion that it
is different and new kind of animal
"a fish perhaps, though when I put it
in the water to see, 1t sank, and she
plunged in and snatched IL out before
there was an opportunity for the
experiment to determine the matter.
still think it is a fish, but she is still
Indifferent about what it is, and will
not let me have it to try. I do not un-
derstand this. The coming of the crea-
ture seems to have changed her whole
nature and made her unreasonable
about experiments. She thinks more
of it than she does of any other ami
NAL, but is not able to explain why.
WEDNEsDAY.-It isn't a fish. I
cannot quite make out what it is. 1t
makes curious devlish noises when
not satisfied and says "goo-goo" when
it is. It is not one of us, for it doesn't
walk; it is not bird, for it doesn't fly;
it is not frog, for it doesn't hop: it is
not snake for it doesn't crawl; feel
sure it is not fish, though I cannot
get chance to find out whether it can
swim or not. 1t merely lies around,
and mostly on its back, with its feet
up. I have not seen any other animal
do that before. 1 said I believed it
was an enigma, but she only admired
the word without understanding it.
In my judgement it is either an en-
igma or some kind of bug. If it dies