“Can any one tell me why Adam was cast out of the Garden of Eden?”
The Herr Doktor repeated his question in a thundering tone.
“Because he ate an apple,” piped a small voice from a far corner of the room.
“And art thou taught that it is wicked to eat an apple?”
A dozen tow-heads were shaken emphatically.
“The apple grew on the tree of knowledge.” It was a pale, red-haired child who spoke.
“It is Johann Werther who knows about the tree of knowledge,” said the Herr Doktor. “At the gasthaus Johann sometimes hath a glimpse of forbidden things.”
Scores of round eyes immediately were turned upon Johann with glances of envy.
“But did man fall through his own sinful desires?” questioned the Herr Doktor, standing very straight, throwing out his chest, and lifting his chin out of his big stock.
“It was Eve who did tempt him,” announced a small boy that sat on the front seat.