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This was, however, not a tenth part of the trouble in which Mr Tebrick found himself For he asked hi into his heart he found that he was indeed jealous, yes, and angry too, that now he must share his vixen ild foxes Then he questioned himself if it were not dishonourable to do so, and whether he should not utterly forget her and follow his original intention of retiring from the world, and see her no more

Thus he tor he had resolved never to see her again

But in the ht he woke up with his head very clear, and said to himself in wonder, "Am I not a madman? I torment myself foolishly with fantastic notions Can a man have his honour sullied by a beast? I anity allow ofjealous of a beast? A thousand times no Were I to lust after a vixen, I were a cri ht to be happy according to the laws of her being"

Lastly, he said to himself as, he felt, the truth of this whole matter: "When I am with her I am happy But now I distort what is si upon it"

Yet before he slept again he prayed, but though he had thought first to pray for guidance, in reality he prayed only that on the ain and that God would preserve her, and her cubs too, froers, and would allow hiht come to love them for her sake as if he were their father, and that if this were a sin he norance The next day or two he saw vixen and cubs again, though his visits were cut shorter, and these visits gave him such an innocent pleasure that very soon his notions of honour, duty and so on, were entirely forgotten, and his jealousy lulled asleep

One day he tried taking with hih his Silvia was affectionate and ah to let him put the stereoscope over herher head to lick his hand, and it was plain to hiotten the use of the instrument It was the sah, but only delighting to bite at the for a moment whether they were diamonds or clubs, or hearts, or spades or whether the card was an ace or not So it was evident that she had forgotten the nature of cards too