30 37 39 8 7 8 42 or any
[ Without with no trace of the wisdom of the serpent or
Without his any sharpness acuteness of faculty ^ nor yet
quite a dove, he possessed that kind
and degree of intelligence going
along with the unconventional
rectitude of a sound pristine human creature ,
one one to whom has not yet ^ has has been proffered
the ^ ^ questionable questionable apple of knowledge. He was
illiterate; he could not read, but he
could sing, and like the illiterate

nightingale was sometimes the composer
of his own song.
Of self-consciousness
he seemed to have ^ little or none, or about as
much of it as we may reasonably
impute to impute to \ The bexx [two lines erased] the animal creation. a dog of Saint Bernard's breed
an intelligent mastiff
30 37 39 8 7 8 42 or any
[ Without with no trace of the wisdom of the serpent or
Without his any sharpness acuteness of faculty ^ nor yet
quite a dove, he possessed that kind
and degree of intelligence going
along with the unconventional
rectitude of a sound pristine human creature ,
one one to whom has not yet ^ has has been proffered
the ^ ^ questionable questionable apple of knowledge. He was
illiterate; he could not read, but he
could sing, and like the illiterate

nightingale was sometimes the composer
of his own song.
Of self-consciousness
he seemed to have ^ little or none, or about as
much of it as we may reasonably
impute to impute to \ The bexx [two lines erased] the animal creation. a dog of Saint Bernard's breed
an intelligent mastiff

Transcribed by: John Bryant