Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

It is well known that geese and ganders become greatly attached to persons who habitually feed them and treat them kindly. But the attachment is seldom so great as that manifested toward an English miller who keeps a flock. The faithful creatures had repeatedly followed him a mile to the village on week days, when he went to attend to business. It did not occur to him that possibly they might some day want to follow him to church. But on a recent Sunday they seemed to be in a devotional frame of mind and marched behind him as he went to the sanctuary. Arriving at the door they wanted to follow him in, and probably would have occupied his pew had he consented to let them do so. He undertook to make them understand that he wanted them to go home, but the innocent and awkward creatures failed to grasp the idea. Finding it impossible to make them return without committing violence on them, the miller was compelled to abandon his religious privileges for the day and proceed homeward at the head of the file of his feathered pets.