. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. good word. Thursday.—She told me she was made out of arib taken from my body. This is at least doubtful, ifnot more than that. I have not missed any rib. . .She is in much trouble about the buzzard ; says grassdoes not agree with it; is afraid she cant raise it;thinks it was intended to live on decayed flesh. Thebuzzard must, get along the best it can with what isprovided. We cannot overturn the whole scheme toaccommodate the buzzard. Saturday.—
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. good word. Thursday.—She told me she was made out of arib taken from my body. This is at least doubtful, ifnot more than that. I have not missed any rib. . .She is in much trouble about the buzzard ; says grassdoes not agree with it; is afraid she cant raise it;thinks it was intended to live on decayed flesh. Thebuzzard must, get along the best it can with what isprovided. We cannot overturn the whole scheme toaccommodate the buzzard. Saturday.—She fell in the pond yesterday, whenshe was looking at herself in it, which she is alwaysdoing. She nearly strangled, and said it was most un-comfortable. This made her sorry for the creatureswhich live in there, which she calls fish, for she con-tinues to fasten names on to things that dont needthem and dont come when they are called by them,which is a matter of no consequence to her, she is sucha fool anyway; so she got a lot of them out andbrought them in and put them in my bed to keepwarm, but I have noticed them now and theii all day. The Horse-Shoe Falls from Goat Island. EXTRACTS FROM ADAM S DIARY. 99 and I dont see that they are any happier there thanthey were before. When night comes I shall throwthem outdoors. I will not sleep with them, for I findthem clammy and unpleasant to lie among when aperson hasnt anything on. Sunday.—Pulled through. Tuesday.—She has taken up with a snake other animals are glad, for she was always experi-menting with them and bothering them ; and I amglad, because the snake talks, and this enables me toget a rest. Friday.—She says the snake advises her to trythe fruit of that tree, and says the result will be a greatand fine and noble education. I told her there wouldbe another result, too—it would introduce death intothe world. That was a mistake—it had been better tokeep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea—
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