120 TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 



"To be sure! There's no eontradiction at all. 

 Adam and Eve were very in-iniilive, indeed, in their 

 habits. Their moral nature was unclouded — therein 

 lay their original perfectness. They were civilized 

 men in that respect ; in other particulars they simply 

 had the rudiments of civilization. "With natural in- 

 telligence such as man now possesses, with knowledge 

 of fire, and situated in a soft and congenial climate, 

 they rapidly developed, as we see in the family of Cain, 

 the arts of herding, music, and smelting metals.'' 



"Well, but were they troglodytes? Did they have 

 those horrible struggles with the wild beasts of the 

 earth hinted at in 3'our boolv ?'' 



" Certainly not ; their onvironment saved (hem from 

 such necessities. But then some of their posterity, as 

 they scattered over the earth, relapsed from many of 

 the acquired arts of civilized men. as they became vicious 

 in morals, and falling upon adverse surroundings, it is 

 not strange that they should have been troglodytes or 

 cave-men of the rudest type — quite as savage as tribes 

 of which we know to-day. But — pray, what is this ? 

 A grave, here in the meadow ?" 



We had been quietly jogging along the i"»ath. and now 

 stopped beside a marble slab fixed in tiie midst of the 

 field, that might easily have been taken for a grave- 

 stone. It was eighteen inches in height, six in thick- 

 ness and seven in width. It sloped with the descent of 

 the hill, and around its base clumps of grass, clover and 

 sheep-sorrel had gathered. 



The Doctor lo.st no time in ilonning hi.s .spectacles. 



