Adam and Eve have angered God, and been cast out of Eden with all of the animals. Eve and the animals blame Adam for the misfortune. Only the dog and the robins remain faithful to him. Life is no longer one of ease, and toil and hardship arise. But the birth of Eve's first child leads to the first Christmas outside of Eden, and the beginning of a reconciliation with God. Coningsby Dawson was an Anglo-American author, born in England. He graduated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1905 and year went to America, where he reported for English newspapers on Canadian subjects. He served in the Canadian army World War I. In 1919, he went to England to study European reconstruction problems, and subsequently lectured on the subject of the United States. He reported on the devastated regions of Central and Eastern Europe at the request of Herbert Hoover. He also edited, with his father W.J. Dawson, The Reader's Library, and Best Short Stories (1923).