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Christmas Outside of Eden
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Title: Christmas Outside of Eden
Author: Coningsby Dawson
Release Date: April 5, 2005 [EBook #15552]
Language: English
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[Illustration: There, seated in the entrance to the cave, the Man saw the Woman but not 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
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Copyright, 1921, By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC. Printed In U.S.A.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
There, seated in the entrance to the cave, the Man saw the Woman, but not the Woman as he had left her.
God had given the Man and Woman no time to pack. He had marched them beyond the walls and locked the golden gates of Eden against them forever.
The Man yawned. "I am still tired. Fetch the horse, that he may carry me back to my dwelling."
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CHRISTMAS OUTSIDE OF EDEN
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This is the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath the holly on the Eve of Christmas. They have told it every Christmas Eve since the wor