CH. VI.] TAMENESS OF ANIMALS ON SUNDAYS. 213 



closely associated with us, and as it were form 

 part of our families become, I am persuaded, 

 perfectly aware of the regular advent of Sunday, 

 and not unfrequently shew that this is the case, 

 by voluntarily adapting themselves to the require- 

 ments of the day. There would probably be no 

 difficulty in collecting a sufficiency of instances in 

 support of this theory to establish it, but I will 

 just mention the two following which happen to 

 occur to me. The Carriage-horses of a friend of 

 mine were accustomed on week-days to take their 

 mistress out for an early drive before luncheon, 

 while on the Sunday they enjoyed a perfect rest. 

 On the week-days they never thought of lying 

 down in the morning before the time when they 

 usually went out, but on the Sunday mornings 

 they invariably did so, as if determined to make 

 the most of their day's rest. I supposed that they 

 might have been induced to do this in consequence 

 of their beds being made up earlier on those days, 

 or of some other departure from the usual rou- 

 tine of the stable arrangements, but I was told 

 that no variation of the kind was ever made. 



A King Charles' Spaniel belonging to a lady, 

 a relation of my own, was constantly in the habit 

 of attending her when she went out driving, and, 



