DE GARDEN OBEDEN.
•• Allus blown about de> wab^ in Europe whenever I comes rouiid; beah," remarked Brother Gardiner one day to a colored crowd on the benches of the Fifth-sti'eet Market. " It's a big wab, and I likes to keep posted," replied one, who bad been reading tbe news to tbe rest. " Charles Henry, look dis way for an hour or so," said the old man as he put down his whitewash brush, " Now, den, wbar was de Garden ob EdenP" " Woosh! what I know 'bout dat garden ?'' " Dar it am —dar it am, Charles Henry ! " exclaimed tbe old man as he wiped his bald head on bis coat sleeve. " Here you is whoopin' aroun' 'bout de Russian wab, an' all dat, when you doan' know nuffin 'bout de history of your own state ! Dats de way wid lots of folks. Dey'll make the biggest kind o\ fuss 'bout Europe, when, fur all dey know, some of tbe watermelons which growed in de Garden of Eden kin be picked in de fence-corners not six miles from dis market—purwided de night am dark 'nuff! "
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2906, 8 June 1878, Page 3
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183DE GARDEN OBEDEN. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2906, 8 June 1878, Page 3
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