I said . ` There 's more depends on it than you think ! ' ` Dead sure , ' he said . ' I was up all night last Monday night because my mare was sick , and there was never a sound out of him . I would have heard if there had been , for the stable door was open all the time and his kennel is right across from it ! ' Now Rilla dear , those were the man 's very words . And you know how that poor little dog howled all night after the battle of Courcelette . Yet he did not love Walter as much as he loved Jem . If he mourned for Walter like that , do you suppose he would sleep sound in his kennel the night after Jem had been killed ? No , Rilla dear , little Jem is not dead , and that you may tie to . 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 XXXXX accordingly .
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