SONNET WROTE WHILST THINKIN’ OF OUR PARENTS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

O Adam and O Eve! How very nice It must have been to live where you wast at. No neighbors anywhere with whom to spat, Nor any one to give you free advice. Ma says she'd gladly pay 'most any price For such a lay-out. And she's certain that Because there wert no servants in your flat Is how you camest to call it "Paradise."

And pa says that if Eve hadst dressed the way Our women do we shouldst have missed the fate Of goin' forth into the world to stray, For she'd be somewhere, still, inside the gate Delayin' things, as women dost to-day, A-tryin' for to pin her hat on straight.