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But at length they caht Mr Tebrick could justin the shadows

Noas tired, but he was happy and laughed softly for joy, and presently his vixen, co to hiround, and licked hiathered her in his arhed and wept by turns in the excess of his joy

All his jealousies of the night before were forgotten now All his desperate sorrow of the one What if they were foxes? Mr Tebrick found that he could be happy with theht, first playing hide and seek with the obstreperous, he lay down and was soon asleep

He oken up soon after dawn by one of the cubs tugging at his shoelaces in play When he sat up he sao of the cubs standing near hi with each other, the other tere playing hide and seek round a tree trunk, and now Angelica let go his laces and ca" to hi the points of his waistcoat a little shyly after the war was very sweet to hi at the day's rebirth, the first bea into the air suddenly, all delighted hih scent of the body of the cub in his arms seemed to him delicious

At that mo but folly; for said he, "I would exchange all my life as a man for my happiness now, and even now I retain almost all of the ridiculous conceptions of a man The beasts are happier and I will deserve that happiness as best I can"

After he had looked at the cubs playing merrily, hoith soft stealth, one would creep behind another to bounce out and startle hiht came into Mr Tebrick's head, and that was that these cubs were innocent, they were as stainless snow, they could not sin, for God had created them to be thus and they could break none of His commandments And he fancied also that men sin because they cannot be as the animals