It was all very discouraging.
Perhaps you never have seen a horse or a jack attached to the end of the pole of one of those old stone grinding-mills, around which he marches and marches, while the grain is ground between the whirling stones in the center.

That was Felix's regular job, which accounted for many of his peculiarities--but Whitey never knew about it.
Among the interesting things about animals is their sense of time.

Many of them seem to be as accurate as clocks and some of them as useful as calendars.

One dog, in particular, comes to my mind, whom his master used to bathe on Sundays.

And when this custom was firmly fixed in his--the pup's--mind, he would go away on Friday night and stay away till Monday morning.