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 of it when Mrs. Dick Clow happened to see them from her attic window . At first she had no intention of letting Mr. Pryor know . She told me she had just gloated over the sight of those cows pasturing on his wheat . She felt it served him exactly right . But presently she reflected that the wheat-crop was a matter of great importance and that ` save and serve ' meant that those cows must be routed out as much as it meant anything . So she went down and phoned over to Whiskers about the matter .
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