A mission worker on the lower East Side, New York, was telling the story
of Adam and Eve to a group of tough kids. When he was through, one boy
asked Hard-boiled Muggsy what it was all about.
“I’ll tell yer,” said Muggsy, “there was a guy and a ‘broad’ in a garden.
They ‘snitched’ an apple; a snake ‘peached’ on ’em, and God said tuhel
with ’em.”
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