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 rand, climbs over the low paage-door, opens it within, and creeps oftly, under the pangs of a guilty concience, to the goat-houe, for he was apprehenive his wife would catch him as he was executing his felonious deign. Contrary to cutom, he found the goat-houe door wide open, a circumtance which agreeably diappointed him, for he dicovered in this neglect ome pretence to varnih his own undertaking. But in the goat-houe all was void and empty, he could not grope out any thing that had the breath of life in its notrils, neither goat nor kid. In his firt alarm, he conceived that he had been anticipated by a more dexterous thief, for misfortunes, he remembered, eldom come ingle. He unk down dipirited upon the traw, and gave himelf entirely up to ullen orrow, on the failure of this laudable attempt to et on foot his trade again.

Jane on her return from the priet had indutriouly put her houe in readines to receive her huband with a avoury meal, to