and explicitly stated in the third chapter of 

 Genesis being quite a different one. 



The society Eve of the present day, I take it, 

 does not make a " muss " in the garden, what- 

 ever she may do elsewhere. But I wish I knew 

 what a " muss " is, so that I might find out where 

 she does make it and ascertain what it is like. 

 Perhaps, after all, it is a good thing to do, and 

 is virtuous and commendable, and for aught I 

 know, Mr. Warner may have been paying wom- 

 anhood a compliment in saying they "made a 

 muss." When he observed that "nature was 

 awful smart," he said he meant to be compli- 

 mentary; so, perhaps, his intentions were similar 

 in this case. But, however that may be, I think 

 it will be safer for me at once to repudiate all 

 responsibility for possibly misinterpreting a word 

 I do not understand or know the meaning of. * 



All the same, I have arrived at the conclusion 

 that the woman who does not " make a muss in 

 a garden " is a product of quite recent times. 



One Society Eve I know looks upon the devel- 

 opment for the table of two fat mushrooms under 

 an ash-tree as of much more absorbing interest 

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