DE GARDEN OF EDEN.
“ Ar.i.us liUw’u' bout ilo with in Europe whenever I comes around hcoh,” remarked brother Uardnoy, yesterday, to a colored crowd on the benches at the (’cutual Market. "It's a wall, mid I likes to keep pouted," replied one who bad been reading the nows to the rest. " < Iharles Henry, look dis way for an hour or so," said the old man us hr pul
pencil his whitewash hnwh. " Fow, den, whar WM dc Garden ob Eden 1 ' " Woosh ? what I know 'bout dat garden ?"
"Dar it am—dar it am, Charles Henry," exclaimed the old man, as hj; wiped his bald head on his coat sleeve. " Here you is, whoopin' aroun' 'bout de Russian wah, an' ail dat, when you don't know nuffin 'bout de History ob your own state! Dut's de way wid lot o' folks. Dey'll make the biggest kind of fuss 'bout Europe, when, for all de know, some ob de watermelons which grow'd in de Garden ob Eden kin be picked in de fence corners not six miles from dis market—purwided the night am dark 'null - ,'"—" Detroit Free Press."
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 24, 16 March 1878, Page 2
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186DE GARDEN OF EDEN. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 24, 16 March 1878, Page 2
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