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“Extract from Adam’s Diary: When the mighty brontosaurus came striding into camp, she regarded it as an acquisition, I considered it a calamity[...]She believed it could be tamed by kind treatment and would be a good pet[...]She thought we could start a dairy with it, and wanted me to help her milk it; but I wouldn’t; it was too risky. The sex wasn’t right, and we hadn’t any ladder anyway.”

“Eve’s Diary: For I do love moons[...]Stars are good, too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed, last night, I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me; then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one.”

After Adam thought Cain was first a fish, then a kangaroo, then a bear, he finally figured out Cain is actually a human. This understanding took a few years--and the arrival of Abel.

Extracts from Adam’s Diary: “We have named it Cain[...]It resembles us in some ways, and may be a relation[...]The difference in size warrants the conclusion that it is a different and new kind of animal--a fish, perhaps, though when I put it in the water to see, it sank, and she plunged in and snatched it out before there was opportunity for the experiment to determine the matter.”

Extracts from Adam’s Diary: “She fell in the pond yesterday, when she was looking at herself in it, which she is always doing. She nearly strangled, and said it was most uncomfortable. This made her sorry for the creatures which live in there[...]so she got a lot of them out and brought them in last night and put them in my bed to keep warm...”

Extracts From Adam’s Diary: “This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way.[...]I wish it would stay with the other animals.[...]Built me a shelter against the rain, but could not have it to myself in peace. The new creature intruded. When I tried to put it out it shed water out of the holes it looks with, and wiped it away with the back of its paws…”

A rare re-read.