If he were , Dog Monday would have known , just as he knew before , and he would not be still waiting for the trains . '' It was absurd -- and irrational -- and impossible . But Rilla believed it , for all that ; and Mrs. Blythe believed it ; and the doctor , though he smiled faintly in pretended derision , felt an odd confidence replace his first despair ; and foolish and absurd or not , they all plucked up heart and courage to carry on , just because a faithful little dog at the Glen station was still watching with unbroken faith for his master to come home . Common sense might scorn -- incredulity might mutter `` Mere superstition '' -- but in their hearts the folk of Ingleside stood by their belief that Dog Monday knew . CHAPTER XXX THE TURNING OF THE TIDE Susan was very sorrowful when she saw the beautiful old lawn of Ingleside ploughed up that spring and planted with potatoes . Yet she made no protest , even when her beloved peony bed was sacrificed . But when the Government passed the Daylight Saving law Susan balked . There was a Higher Power than the Union Government , to which Susan owed allegiance . `` Do you think it right to meddle with the arrangements of the Almighty ? '' she demanded indignantly of the doctor . The doctor , quite unmoved , responded that the law must be observed , and the Ingleside clocks were moved on accordingly . But the doctor had no power over Susan 's little alarm . `` I bought that with my own money , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' she said firmly , `` and it shall go on God 's time and not Borden 's time . '' Susan got up and went to bed by `` God 's time , '' and regulated her own goings and comings by it . She served the meals , under protest , by Borden 's time , and she had to go to church by it , which was the crowning injury . But she said her prayers by her own clock , and fed the hens by it ; so that there was always a furtive triumph in her eye when she looked at the doctor . She had got the better of him by so much at least . `` Whiskers-on-the-moon is very much delighted with this daylight saving business , '' she told him one evening . `` Of course he naturally would be , since I understand that the Germans invented it . I hear he came near losing his entire wheat-crop lately .
Warren Mead 's cows broke into the field one day last week -- it was the very day the Germans captured the Chemang-de-dam , which may have been a coincidence or may not -- and were making fine havoc XXXXX it when Mrs. Dick Clow happened to see them from her attic window .
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