Camp Fire Legends of Wood Folks 319 



Garden of Eden and tempted Eve there isn't 

 any account of his going on his belly. I can't 

 j.ust say what his manner of traveling was. 

 Perhaps he walked on the end of his tail, but 

 if he did, he was a pretty good balancer. 



" When God saw what the snake had done, 

 how he had tempted Eve, got her to eat of 

 the tree of knowledge, and broke up the whole 

 plan of Eden, God said to the snake, ' Hence- 

 forth you shall go upon your belly and be 

 hated and bruised by men.' 



" So the snake got down on his belly and 

 wriggled out of Eden, feeling that he had 

 sorter ' cooked his goose,' as you might say. 



"At first he didn't mind it so much, for 

 he could go creeping about in the grass very 

 still and scare people, especially Eve and her 

 daughters, making them scream and run. 

 This was great fun for the snake and he would 

 nearly split with laughter each time. 



" But he soon found that there were great 

 disadvantages in having to crawl on one's 

 belly. In the first place, he could not go fast ; 

 in the second place, he could not see off and 



