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"The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Christmas Outside of Eden Author: Coningsby Dawson Release Date: April 5, 2005 [EBook #15552] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS OUTSIDE OF EDEN *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. -1- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. -2- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. -3- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. There, seated in the entrance to the cave, -4- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. the Man saw the Woman, but not the Woman as -5- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. he had left her. -6- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Christmas Outside of Eden -7- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. BY Coningsby Dawson -8- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Author of "The Garden Without Walls," "Carry On," etc. -9- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. ILLUSTRATIONS BY Eugene Francis Savage NEW YORK DODD, MEAD - 10 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. AND COMPANY 1922 - 11 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Copyright 1921, By DODD, MEAD - 12 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. AND COMPANY, Inc. 1922 - 13 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. - 14 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Contents I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X - 15 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. - 16 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. ILLUSTRATIONS There, seated in the entrance to - 17 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. the cave, the Man saw the Woman, but not the - 18 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Woman as he had left her. - 19 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. God had given the Man and Woman no time to - 20 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. pack. He had marched them beyond the - 21 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. walls and locked the golden gates of Eden - 22 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. against them forever. - 23 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. The Man yawned. "I am still tired. Fetch the horse, - 24 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. that he may carry me back to my dwelling." - 25 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. - 26 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. CHRISTMAS OUTSIDE OF EDEN - 27 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. I This is the story the robins tell as they - 28 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. huddle beneath the holly on the Eve of Christmas. - 29 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. They have told it every Christmas Eve since the world - 30 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. started. They commenced telling it long before - 31 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Christ was born, for their memory goes - 32 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. further back than men’s. The Christmas which they - 33 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. celebrate began just outside of Eden, within sight - 34 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. of its gold-locked doors. - 35 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. The robins have only two stories: one for - 36 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Christmas and one for Easter. Their Easter - 37 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. story is quite different. It has to do with how - 38 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. they got the splash of red upon their breasts. It - 39 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. was when God’s son was hanging on the cross. - 40 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. They wanted to do something to spare - 41 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. him. They were too weak to pull out the nails from - 42 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. his feet and hands; so they tore their little breasts in - 43 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. plucking the thorns one by one from the crown that - 44 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. had been set upon his forehead. Since then - 45 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. God has allowed their breasts to remain red - 46 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. as a remembrance of His gratitude. - 47 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. But their Christmas story happened long - 48 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. before, when they weren’t robin red-breasts - 49 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. but only robins. It is a merry, tender sort of story. - 50 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. They twitter it in a chuckling fashion to their - 51 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. children. If you prefer to hear it first-hand, creep out - 52 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. to the nearest holly-bush on almost any - 53 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Christmas Eve when snow has made the night all - 54 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. pale and shadowy. If the robins have chosen - 55 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. your holly-bush as their rendezvous and you - 56 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. understand their language, you won’t need to - 57 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. read what I have written. Like all true stories, it is - 58 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. much better told than read. It’s the story of the - 59 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. first laugh that was ever heard in earth or heaven. To - 60 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. be enjoyed properly it needs the chuckling twitter of - 61 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. the grown-up robins and the squeaky - 62 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. interruptions of the baby birds asking questions. - 63 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. When they get terrifically excited, they jig up - 64 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. and down on the holly-branches and the frozen - 65 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. snow falls with a brittle clatter. Then the - 66 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. mother and father birds say, "Hush!" quite - 67 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. suddenly. No one speaks for a full five seconds. - 68 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. They huddle closer, listening and holding - 69 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. their breath. That’s how the story ought to be - 70 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. heard, after night-fall on Christmas Eve, when behind - 71 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. darkened windows little boys and girls have gone - 72 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. to bed early, having hung up their very - 73 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. biggest stockings. Of course I can’t tell it that way on - 74 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. paper, but I’ll do my best to repeat the precise - 75 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. words in which the robins tell it. - 76 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. II It was very long ago at the beginning - 77 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. of all wonders. Sun, moon and stars were new; - 78 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. they wandered about in the clouds uncertainly, - 79 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. calling to one another like ships in a fog. It was - 80 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. the same on earth; neither trees, nor rivers, nor - 81 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. animals were quite sure why they had been - 82 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. created or what was expected of them. They were - 83 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. terribly afraid of doing wrong and they had - 84 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. good reason, for the Man and Woman - 85 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. had done wrong and had been locked out of Eden. - 86 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. That had happened in April, when the world was - 87 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. three months old. Up to that time everything - 88 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. had gone very well. No one had known what fear - 89 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. was. No one had guessed that anything - 90 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. existed outside the walls of Eden or that there - 91 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. was such a thing as wrong-doing. Animals, trees and - 92 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. rivers had lived together with the Man and - 93 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. the Woman in the high-walled garden as a happy - 94 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. family. If they had wanted to know anything, - 95 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. they had asked the Man; he had always given them - 96 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. answers, even though he had to invent - 97 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. them. They had never dreamt of doubting him—not - 98 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. even the Woman. The reason for this had been God. - 99 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Every afternoon God had come stepping - 100 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. down from the sky to walk with the Man through the - 101 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. sun-spangled shadows of the grassy paths. They had - 102 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. heard the kindly rumble of His voice like distant - 103 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. thunder and the little tones of the Man as he - 104 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. asked his questions. At six o’clock regularly - 105 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. God had shaken hands with the Man and - 106 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. climbed leisurely back up the sky-blue stairs that - 107 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. led to Heaven. Because of this the Man had - 108 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. gained a reputation among the animals for being wise. - 109 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. They had thought of him as God’s friend. He - 110 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. had given orders to everybody—even to the Woman; and - 111 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. everyone had been proud to obey him. - 112 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. It had been in April the great change - 113 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. had occurred. There had been all kinds of - 114 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. rumours. The first that had been suspected - 115 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. had been when God had failed to come for His - 116 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. customary walk; the next had been when He had - 117 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. arrived with His face hidden in anger. The trees of - 118 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Eden had bent and clashed as if a strong wind were - 119 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. blowing. Everything living that was not rooted, had - 120 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. run away to hide. Nevertheless, when God had called - 121 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. to the Man, they had tiptoed nearer to listen. The - 122 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. trouble had seemed to be about some fruit. God had - 123 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. told the Man that he must not pluck it; he had not - 124 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. only plucked it, but had eaten of it. So had the - 125 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Woman. It had seemed a small matter to - 126 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. make such a fuss about. They had supposed - 127 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. that God’s anger would soon blow over and that - 128 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. everything would be again as friendly as before. - 129 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. God had given the - 130 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Man and Woman no time to pack. He had - 131 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. marched them beyond the walls and locked the - 132 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. golden gates of Eden against them - 133 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. forever. And so everything might have been had it - 134 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. not been for the Man. Instead of saying he - 135 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. was sorry, he had started to argue and blame the - 136 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Woman. At that God had refused to speak with - 137 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. him longer. He had ordered the Man and Woman - 138 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. and all the animals to leave Eden immediately. He had - 139 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. given them no time to pack. Lining them up like - 140 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. soldiers, He had numbered them to make - 141 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. certain that none were missing and then, with the - 142 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Man and Woman leading, had marched - 143 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. them beyond the walls and locked the golden - 144 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. gates of Eden against them forever. - 145 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. Since then all had been privation and - 146 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of Christmas Outside of Eden, by Coningsby Dawson. confusion. The animals, from regarding - 147 - The P..."

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