There, seated in the entrance to the cave, the Man saw the Woman, butnot the Woman as he had left her.
Christmas Outside of Eden
BY
Coningsby Dawson
Author of "The Garden Without Walls," "Carry On," etc.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
Eugene Francis Savage
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1922
Copyright 1921,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
1922
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ILLUSTRATIONS
The Man yawned. "I am still tired. Fetch the horse, that he may carry meback to my dwelling."
CHRISTMAS OUTSIDE OF EDEN
I
This is the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath the holly onthe Eve of Christmas. They have told it every Christmas Eve since theworld started. They commenced telling it long before Christ was born,for their memory goes further back than men's. The Christmas which theycelebrate began just outside of Eden, within sight of its gold-lockeddoors.
The robins have only two stories: one for Christmas and one for Easter.Their Easter story is quite different. It has to do with how they gotthe splash of red upon their breasts. It was when God's son was hangingon the cross. They wanted to do something to spare him. They were tooweak to pull out the nails from his feet and ha