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again without resistance, and since then she is 

 not to be cheated." 



A horse which is regularly used for attending 

 church, will, from its own observation, learn to 

 recognize the Sabbath and understand the 

 meaning of the church bells. Two interesting 

 illustrations of this fact I give on the authority 

 of a recent number of the Hartford Post: 



A pair of horses that had been used during the week 

 in team-work to Springfield, on Sunday were harnessed and 

 driven to the door unhitched, and, the family being rather 

 tardy that morning, as soon as the second bell began to 

 ring the horses started off alone, and with their usual Sun- 

 day motion went up in front of the church, when, after 

 waiting the usual time, they quietly went around under the 

 horse-shed. 



Here the horses plainly understood the dis- 

 tinction between that day and the six previous 

 ones when they had been driven to Springfield, 

 else they would have gone, after starting, to 

 where they had been going through the week ; 

 they also evidently understood that at the ring- 

 ing of the second bell it was time to start for 



