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These words brought her forth instantly and she looked at him with as much astonishry Yes, she even fawned on hiood wife putting up wonderfully with her husband's teentleman (so simple was he) repent his outburst and feel most ashamed

But for all that when she was out of the hole he filled it up with great stones and beat them in with a crowbar so she should find her work at that point harder than before if she was teain into the garden but sent little Polly with her to keep her co out he saw his vixen had cli over the wall, and was not so far froet a little further

Mr Tebrick ran out into the garden as quick as he could, and when his wife saw hi at the wall, so that she round and lay there insensible When Mr Tebrick got up to her he found her head isted under her by her fall and the neck seereat to hi, but knelt beside her turning her linised that she was indeed dead, and beginning to consider what dreadful afflictions God had visited him with, he blaspheive his wife back to hi a foul blasphe her a fox, but now you must rob me of that fox too, that has been my only solace and coan wringing his hands and continued there in such an extre, neither what he was doing, nor ould become of him in the future, but only knew that his life was ended now and he would not live any longer than he could help

All this while the little girl Polly stood by, first staring, then asking hi with fear, but he never heeded her nor looked at her but only tore his hair, sometiht Polly opened the door and ran out of the garden