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Title: Paradise Garden
The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment

Author: George Gibbs

Release Date: April 6, 2005 [EBook #15570]

Language: English

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PARADISE GARDEN

_THE SATIRICAL NARRATIVE
OF A GREAT EXPERIMENT_

BY
GEORGE GIBBS

AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW DOVE, ETC.

_I have considered well his loss of time
And how he cannot be a perfect man
Not being tried and tutored in the world._

--TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.

ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM A. HOTTINGER

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Printed in the United States of America

[Illustration: "'Love!' he sneered ... 'I thought you'd say that.'"]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT

II. JERRY

III. JERRY GROWS

IV. ENTER EVE

V. THE MINX RETURNS

VI. THE CABIN

VII. JACK BALLARD TAKES CHARGE

VIII. JERRY EMERGES

IX. FOOT-WORK

X. MARCIA

XI. THE SIREN

XII. INTRODUCING JIM ROBINSON

XIII. UNA

XIV. JERRY GOES INTO TRAINING

XV. THE UNKNOWN UNMASKED

XVI. THE FIGHT

XVII. MARCIA RECANTS

XVIII. TWO EMBASSIES

XIX. THE PATH IN THE WOODS

XX. REVOLT

XXI. JERRY ASKS QUESTIONS

XXII. THE CHIPMUNK

XXIII. THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY

XXIV. FEET OF CLAY

XXV. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS

XXVI. DRYAD AND SATYR

XXVII. REVELATIONS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"'Love!' he sneered ... 'I thought you'd say that.'"

"In the evenings sometimes I read while Jerry whittled"

"This then was Jerry's house-party--!"

"'Have pity, Jerry,' she whimpered"

PARADISE GARDEN

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT EXPERIMENT

It might be better if Jerry Benham wrote his own memoir, for no matter
how veracious, this history must be more or less colored by the point
of view of one irrevocably committed to an ideal, a point of view
which Jerry at least would insist was warped by schol