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This appetite for grapes is so well confires in the Scriptures, that it is strange Mr Tebrick should not have known it After reading this account he wrote to London for a basket of grapes to be posted to him twice a week and was rejoiced to find that the account in the encyclopedia was true in the most important of these particulars His vixen relished thely and seemed never to tire of them, so that he increased his order first from one pound to three pounds and afterwards to five Her odour abated so much by this means that he cas before her toilet What helpedwith her bearable for him was that she understood hih she was duns though never by the voice

Thus he frequently conversed with her, telling her all his thoughts and hiding nothing from her, and this theand her answers

"Puss, Puss," he would say to her, for calling her that had been a habit with hi alone here with you after what has happened, but I would not change places while you were living with any h you are a fox I would rather live with you than any woed to anything" But then, catching her grave look, he would say: "Do you think I jest on these things, , that all my life I will be true to you, will be faithful, will respect and reverence you who are my wife And I will do that not because of any hope that God in His mercy will see fit to restore your shape, but solely because I love you However youthem would have sworn that they were lovers, so passionately did each look on the other

Often he would swear to her that the devil ht have power to work soe his love for her

These passionate speeches, however they ht have struck his wife in an ordinary way, now seemed to be her chief comfort She would come to hi eyes shining with joy and gratitude, would pant with eagerness, jump at him and lick his face