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On seeing this and recollecting how ill the ears of a dog can bear with our reater in a fox, all of whose senses arethis he closed the piano and taking her in his arain He could not help h, since it was but two days after she had herself led hi those pieces which were her favourites

That night she would not sleep with him, neither in the bed nor on it, so that he was forced to let her curl herself up on the floor But neither would she sleep there, for several ti around the roo on the bed and then off it, so that he ith a violent start and cried out, but got no answer either, except hearing her trotting round and round the rooines to hi, and so fetches her food and water, but she never so oes on her rounds, every now and then scratching at the door

Though he spoke to her, calling her by her name, she would pay no heed to hiave her up and said to her plainly: "The fit is on you now Silvia to be a fox, but I shall keep you close and in thekept you now"

So he lay down again, but not to sleep, only to listen to his wife running about the rooet out of it Thus he spent as perhaps theshe was still restless, and was reluctant to let hi scented but as it were to bear with it for his sake Ordinarily she had taken the greatest pleasure iinable in her toilet, so that on this account, added to his sleepless night, Mr Tebrick was utterly dejected, and it was then that he resolved to put a project into execution that would show hiht, whether he had a wife or only a wild vixen in his house But yet he was coh so restlessly that he did not spare her, calling her a "bad wild fox" And then speaking to her in this manner: "Are you not ashamed, Silvia, to be such a madcap, such a wicked hoyden? You ere particular in dress I see it was all vanity--now you have not your for of decency"