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Rh guinea-pigs roll down the ſloping tiles, to ſee if the fall would kill them. And were they killed? cried Caroline. Certainly; and it is well they were, or he would have found ſome other mode of torment. When he became a father, he not only neglected to educate his children, and ſet them a good example, but he taught them to be cruel while he tormented them: the conſequence was, that they neglected him when he was old and feeble; and he died in a ditch.

You may now go and feed your birds, and tie ſome of the ſtraggling flowers round the garden ſticks. After dinner, if the weather continues fine, we will walk to the wood, and I will ſhew you the hole in the limeſtone mountain (a mountain whoſe bowels, as we call them, are lime-ſtones) in which poor crazy Robin and his dog lived. Rh