214 ANECDOTES OF DOGS. [PART Il. 
if it was wished that he should not accompany her, 
it was necessary to shut him up to prevent him 
from doing so. On Sundays she went to teach at 
the village-school, where his presence was of 
course undesirable. To my surprise one Sunday 
morning I saw her preparing for a start to the 
school, leaving “Beau” at liberty in the dining- 
room, which was on the ground-floor, opening on 
the carriage-drive by which she would leave the 
house. I was proceeding to shut him up, when 
she said, “Oh you need not trouble yourself to do 
that; he knows quite well that it is Sunday, and 
won't attempt to go with me.” She was perfectly 
right, Beau sat in a chair, watching her through 
the open window as she drove off, looking the 
picture of mortified resignation, but not offering 
to quit his place, though he had not been told to 
remain there. . 
A more remarkable story has been handed 
down from the last generation in our family, 
which, although I cannot vouch for its authen- 
ticity, I fully believe. In this instance, it was a 
favourite Pomeranian Dog, who having been several 
times prevented from following the family to 
church, a distance of about a mile and a half from 
the house, used to start some time before them, 
