A Tived Boy. 123

them, yet she would be very sorry if
she saw the dead weasel.

‘And while she looked up at the
nest, he made the hole bigger with
his spade, and pulled the enemy of
the little birdies out; and when he
saw that it was quite dead, he hid it
out of sight; and told the child that
she could go and get her strawberries
now, for that her young pets were
perfectly safe, and that there was no
longer a cruel weasel to hurt them.’