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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.