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Eve's Diary by Mark Twain

LitReading - Classic Short Stories

CHAPTER

Is There Anything He Does Not Care For?

"I had created something that didn't exist before. I was proud of my achievement and was going to run and find him and tell him about it, thinking to raise myself and his esteem." "But he would not care for it. No, he would ask what it was good for. And what could I answer? For it was not good for something, but only beautiful," says the author. 'The burnt experiment shuns the fire,' writes King James' The Book Of Kings is published by Hodder & Stoughton at £16.99.

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