CHAP. XIV REYNARD THE FOX IOI

have your will accomplished, yet Heaven, I
hope, will requite the misdoer.’
This she said, but her husband and the bear

lay mute, for their wounds were grievous unto

 

them; and surely had the cat been there also,
he had not escaped some extreme punishment.
The next morning, very early, Reynard,
causing his shoes to be well oiled, put them

on, and made them as fit to his feet as they