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Mr Tebrick looked at his wife again and spoke to her, calling her a good creature Already he was resigned and now, indeed, for the first tihly understood what had happened to her, and how far apart they were now But looking first at one cub, then at another, and having the the pretty scene, and taking pleasure in it Now and then he would stroke his vixen and kiss her, liberties which she freely allowed hientleness with the cubs and the extreht she took in them seemed to hist them at the

First he would play with one, then with another, rolling the yet to lend themselves to any other more active sport than this Every now and then he would stroke his vixen, or look at her, and thus the tiathered her cubs together and pushed the back to him once or twice very humanly bid hiain, now he had found out the way"

So ad that it would have been superfluous for her to have spoken had she been able, and Mr Tebrick, as used to her, got up at once and went hos which he had not troubled himself hen he ith her, but had, as it were, put aside till after his innocent pleasures were over, all these ca ways

Firstly he asked himself: Was not his wife unfaithful to him, had she not prostituted herself to a beast? Could he still love her after that? But this did not trouble hiht have done For noas convinced inwardly that she could no longer in fairness be judged as a woman, but as a fox only And as a fox she had done nothem with love, she had done well

Whether in this conclusion Mr Tebrick was in the right or not, is not for us here to consider But I would only say to those ould censure hiious side of theas he did, and perhaps if it were displayed before our eyes we ht be led to the same conclusions