Meanwhile what had become of the "bundle?" It seems that a woman in the village was out visiting that morning. and on her return saw this package. It locke! tempting. It was on the highway, he: no one could accuse her of stealing if she picked it up, Never heles she looked to the eight points of the compass before she touched it and the seeing no one, grabbed the "bundle" and departed to hier own home. Here she concealed it, until she could on various protexts send off the childdren, and this done, she proceeded to Investigate her "find." Unlike the novelist, (for this is an 'o'er true tale"), we are unable to state what wore her exclamations when she opened it. It might well have been an "Ai yah, liao put," or even a more emphatic utterance of grief and amazement. What she did was to fall back in a swoon; a condition in which the neighbours found her shortly afterwards.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.