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, 
