Helen understood now why it was her mother had so often, within a few days, requested her to play in another room. She was making the dresses for Dolly, and wished to give her little girl a pleasant surprise. "O, what a good time we will have!" cried the happy miss, as they rose from the table. "You shall play with it half the time, Anna, and I'll take yours. Perhaps mamma will let us take your birthday present of cups and saucers, and play 'come and see.'" Her little cousin's cheeks were as rosy, and her smile as bright, as if the doll had been presented to her. After Helen had given her father and mother another kiss, and thanked them for making her so happy, Anna followed her to their chamber, where, with the little Isabelle, they passed an hour in the happy sports of childhood. In the evening, when they were drawn up in a circle around the fire, Dolly had her seat between the cousins, Isabelle having pulled an ottoman to her mother's side, where she could see if the beautiful stranger conducted herself with steadiness and decorum. "Isabelle," said her father, "what was the name of the first man?" "Adam." "What was the name of his wife, Anna?" "Eve." "Who was created first?" "Adam," replied Helen. "Out of what did God create him?" "Out of dust," answered Walter. "In whose image was Adam created, my son?" "God created man in his own image." "Over what was he to have dominion?" "Over all other creatures." "On what day were they created?" "The sixth." "Can you tell me the meaning of the word Adam?" "No, sir." "It signifies red earth. All along on the banks of the river, where the garden of Eden is supposed to have been, the earth is red; and being created from that, he was called Adam, or the red man. It is said,— "'The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.' "I suppose it is hardly possible for us to conceive the luxuriant beauty of the place. "It was the sixth day of God's work of creation. The beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, fresh from his forming hand, had appeared before their Maker, who pronounced them 'very good.' And God said,— "'Let us make man in our image,'— "And behold 'earth into flesh transformed, and clay to man.' "'Adam, arise, since I to thee impart A spirit warm from my benignant breath Arise, arise, first man, And joyous let the world Embrace its living miniature in thee!'" * * * * * * "'Man, be thou lord of all that now the sun Warms, or the ocean laves; impose a name On every thing that flies, or runs, or swims.'" * * Gio. Battista Andreini, Italian poet, from whom Milton drew for his "Paradise Lost." "'God brought every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, unto Adam, to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.' 'But for Adam, there was not found a helpmeet for him.'