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ADAMS DIARY.
The Coming of .'rhat New Creature
with the Long Hair" Incidents
OF the Tree aud Snake SatisfactOr.
lily Explained.

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OF the Tree and Snake satisfactor.
lily Explained.
Extracts from Adams Diary, Trans.
lated from the Original MS. BY
Mark Twain.
From Harper's Magazine and North
American Review Of April.
MoNDAY.-Thisn new creature with the
long hair Is q good deal in the way. 1t
is always hanging around and follow
ing me about. I don't like this; l am
not used to company. wish it would
stay with the other animals. {.
Cloudy to-day; wind in the east; think
Where did I get that word ? :.
I remember now---the new creature
uses it.
TUEsDAY-Been examining the
great waterfall. 1t is the finest thing
on the estate. I think. The new crea-
ture calls it Niagara Falls-why am
sure I do not know. Says it looks
like Niagara Falls. That is not a rea-
son; it is mere waywardness and I'M
becility. I get no chance to name
any thing myself. The new creature
names everything that comes along
before I can get in a protest. And
always that same pretext is offered =
it looks like the thing. There is the
dodo, for instance. Says the moment
one looks at it one sees at q glance
that it "looks like dodo". It will
have to keep that name, no doubt. 1t
wearies me to fret about it, and it does
no good, any way. Dodo 1t looks
no more like dOdo than do.
COULDN'T HAVE HIS sHELTERlN
PEACE.
WEDNESDAY.-Built me sheltering
against the rain, but could not have
it to myself in peace. The new crea-
ture intruded. When I tried to put it
out it shed water out of the holes it
looks with, and wiped it away with
the back of it's paws, and made noise
such as other animals make when
thew are in distress. I wish it would
not talk: it is always talking. That
sounds like cheap fling at the poor
creature, slur; but do not mean it
80. I have never heard the human
voice before, and any new and strange
sound intruding itself here upon the
hush of these dreaming solitudes of.
fends my ear and seems false note.
FRIDAY-The naming goes recklessly
on, in spite of all / can do. / had q
very good name for the estate,
and it was very musical and sweet
GARDEN OF EDEN. Privately, I
continue to call it that, but not any
longer publicly. The new creature
saws it is all woods and rocks and see
merry, and therefore has no resem-
blance to a garden. Says it looks like
q park and does not look like any
thing but a park. Consequently,
without consulting me, it has been
new named-NIAGARA FALLS
PARK. This is sufficiently high
handed, 1t seems to me. And already
KEEP OFF THE
GRASS.
My life not as happy as it used to be.
SATURDAY-The new creature eats
too much fruit. We are going 10 run
short, most likely. "We" again
that is its word; mine, too, now, from
hearing it 30 much. Good deal Of fog
this morning. do not 60 out in the
fog myself. The new creature does.
1t goes out in all weathers, and stumps
right in with its muddy feet. And
talks. It Used to be 80 pleasant and
quiet here.
SuNDAY-Pulled through. This day
Is getting to be more and more trying
1t was selected and set apart last Nov
ember as day Of rest. I already had
six of them per week, before. This
morning found the new creature trying
to clod apples out ofthat forbidden tree.
MoNDAY-The new creature says its
name Is Eve. That is all right.
have no objections. Says it is to call
it by when I want it to come. said
it was superfuous, then. The word
evidently raised me in its respect;
and indeed it is large good word,
and will bear repetition. 1t says it is
She.
TUESDAY.-Sheh has Uttered the whole
estate with execrable names and often
sive signs:
This way to the whirlpool.
This way to Goat Island
Cave of the Winds this Way.
She says this park would make IL
dy summer resort If there was any
custom for it. Summer resort-anoth-
er invention Of hers just words,
without any meaning. What is a
summer resort? But IL is best not to
ask her, she has such rage for ex-
planning.
FRIDAY-She has taken to beseeching
me to stop going over the Falls.
What harm does it do? Says it
makes her shudder. I wonder why,
have always done it-always like the
plunge and the excitement and the
GOODNESS. I supposed it was what the
Falls were for. They have no other
use that I can see, and they must have
been made for something.
SATURDAY.-I escaped last Tuesday
night, and travelled two days, and
built me another shelter, in a secluded
place, and obliterated my tracks as
we'll as I could, but she hunted me
out by means of beast which she has
tanned tanned and calls wolf, and
and came making that pitiful noise
again, and shedding that water out OF
the places she looks with. I was ob.
liged to return with her, but will pres.
emily emigrate again, again, when oc.
casion offers. She engages herself
in many foolish things: among others,
trying 10 study out why the animals
called lions and tigers live on grass
and flowers, when, as she says, the
sort OF teeth they wear would indicate
that they were intended to eat each
other. This is foolish, because to dc
that would be to kill each other, ant
that would introduce W bat, as Iunder
stand it, is called "death;;" and death
as have been told, has not yet enter