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morning-, before anything had been done to 

 mark it as different from other days. 

 Generally he would lie on the rug at 

 breakfast time and be quite alert afterwards 

 and on the watch to go out with us, but on 

 Sundays he went straight to his basket when 

 we came down and did not move or look up 

 when breakfast was over. From very early 

 days he used to go with my wife to afternoon 

 Sunday School. He knew exactly the time 

 when she ought to get ready to start, and if 

 then she didn't move he would get up and 

 go to her, and he gave her no peace until 

 she went to dress. When he arrived at the 

 school he would curl himself up on an old 

 shawl in a corner of the room, and until the 

 Lord's Prayer before the final grace of the 

 dismissal prayers he would not stir. Directly 

 he heard the Lord's Prayer, he would get up 

 in readiness, but he never left his corner until 

 the prayers were finished. On one Sunday 

 in the month there was catechising in the 

 Church, instead of Sunday school, and Snap 

 was wont to be shut up by himself in the 

 schoolroom until the service was over. This 

 he didn't much care for, and often when he 

 had started joyously as usual for his walk 

 to the school, three-quarters of a mile away, 

 as soon as he came near enough to hear the 

 church bell ringing, he quietly turned round 

 and went home. When he had been with us 

 for about eight years we took him to London 



