—To Help the Labour-denuded Farmer.
Reading edition
After experimenting in pretty but amorous poultry Eve is here seen ruthlessly banishing them from her rural Paradise; for, as she truly says, “they set such a bad example to the servants”
Adam decided to attend to the little ducks. He does so, and Eve prudently decides to—
—Abandon Farmer Giles at once, and she returns with a chastened and apologetic Adam to London. The animals in the picture are those which Eve made pets of at the farm, and which she simply couldn’t bear to part with. So she is taking the poor darlings with her
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