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Thus with Mr Tebrick, for as he had been beastly, ht before, so on his awakening was he ashamed, melancholic and a true penitent before his Creator The first thing he did when he caive him for his sin, then he fell into earnest prayer and continued so for half-an-hour upon his knees Then he got up and dressed but continued veryin thisabout naked, but he reflected it would be a bad reforain and he would stick to it, and so he let her be, though sorely against his will

For the same reason, that is because he would stick to his side of the bargain, he did not require her to sit up at table, but gave her her breakfast on a dish in the corner, where to tell the truth she on her side ate it all up with great daintiness and propriety Nor she did , but lay curled up in an ar After lunch he took her out, and she never sobefore hier walk This he consented to do very h the fields by theood luck they walked above four miles across country and saw nobody All the way his wife kept running on ahead of him, and then back to hi exercise And though they startled two or three rabbits and a hare in the course of their walk she never atte the at hi cry of "Puss! cooing into the porch they came face to face with an old woman Mr Tebrick stopped short in consternation and looked about for his vixen, but she had run forithout any shyness to greet her Then he recognised the intruder, it was his wife's old nurse

"What are you doing here, Mrs Cork?" he asked her