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sleep and let the cattle ruin my garden.' Both dogs in- 

 stantly sprang up and ran out of the room, and, finding 

 no cattle in the garden, returned and lay down by the fire. 

 Sir Walter again read the story from the book, and again 

 the dogs ran out and came back disappointed, and lay down. 

 The third time their master told the story the dogs came 

 up to him and looked in his face, whined, and wagged their 

 tails, as if to say : ' You have made game of us twice ; you 

 cannot do it for the third time.' 



American Anecdote 



An American living in a Northern Catbedral town had 

 a Romanist priest and an Evangelical cricketer parson as 

 near neighbours. The Romanist owned a mongrel fox- 

 terrier called Troy, and the Evangelical parson a large 

 black torn cat, and the pair were strangely enough great 

 chums, and both often came over the wall into the 

 American's garden. Nothing would induce the dog to eat 

 a bone on a Friday, unless it was a fish-bone ; if he was 

 given the knuckle end of a leg of mutton on that day he 

 would look at it sadly, and then go out and bury it, or else 

 give it to the Evangelical cat. 



One Friday he was given a big hunk of beef ; the dog 

 took it out into the garden where the cat was waiting for 

 him, and they had a bark and mew confab, but the former 

 did not, according to custom, part with his prize ; he stuck 

 to it and puss went over the wall into his master's garden. 

 Presently he returned with an open tin of sardines in his 

 mouth, which he offered in exchange for the meat. Troy, 

 having satisfied himself that the box was half-full, agreed 

 to the exchange, and both canine and feline partners 

 thereupon lunched and prospered. 



The Dog's Sunday 



On November 3 in the churches of France, it was once 

 permitted that the people, and even in certain places ex- 



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