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Presently he got up full of happiness, and beganhis way home when suddenly he ca to happen to them?"
This question rooted him stockishly in a cold and deadly fear as if he had seen a snake before him At last he shook his head and hurried on his path Aye, indeed, ould becoht put him into such a fever of apprehension that he did his best not to think of it any more, but yet it stayed with him all that day and for weeks after, at the back of his mind, so that he was not careless in his happiness as before, but as it were trying continually to escape his own thoughts
This made him also anxious to pass all the tioing out to theht in the woods also as he had done that night; and so he passed several weeks, only returning to his house occasionally to get himself a fresh provision of food But after a week or ten days at the new earth both his vixen and the cubs, too, got a new habit of roa while back, as he knew, his vixen had been lying out alonethe sa The earth, in short, had served its purpose and was now distasteful to them, and they would not enter it unless pressed with fear
This new rief to Mr Tebrick, for soether, or for the whole day even, and not knohere they htful for hielica or another of the cubs to fetch him to their new lair, or come herself if she could spare the time For now they were all perfectly accustomed to his presence, and had coh he was inrabbits, yet they always rejoiced to see him when they had been parted from him This friendliness of theirs was, you may be sure, the source of most of Mr Tebrick's happiness at this ti but his foxes, his love for his vixen had extended itself insensibly to include her cubs, and these were now his daily playmates so that he knew them as well as if they had been his own children With Selwyn and Angelica indeed he was always happy; and they never so much as when they ith him He was not stiff in his behaviour either, but had learnt by this time as much from his foxes as they had from him Indeed never was there a er effects upon both of the parties