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master after each exertion, and look at him, as if 

 asking for his approbation of what they had 

 done. 



That dogs are able to discover likenesses in 

 pictures is undoubted, and I have in another work 

 given one or two well- authenticated instances of this 

 fact. This circumstance alone would prove their 

 intellectual faculties, as I suppose that no other 

 animal whatever would be able to identify either 

 the human face, or one of their own species on 

 canvas however well painted. The following 

 anecdote may serve to corroborate the above 

 remark. 



Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, calling one day on 

 Sir Godfrey Kneller at his country seat near 

 Hounslow, was taken into his summer-house, 

 where there was a whole length picture of Lady 

 Kneller. It was much damaged and scratched 

 at the feet, and the Bishop expressed a curi- 

 osity to know how it became so injured. Sir 

 Godfrey said, it was owing to a favourite dog of 

 Lady Kneller's, who, having been accustomed to 

 lie in her lap, scratched the picture in that manner 

 in order to be taken up. This made the Bishop 

 mention, that Zeuxis painted a bunch of grapes 

 upon a boy's head so naturally, that a bird pecked 

 at them. If the boy/' said Sir Godfrey, " had 

 been painted as naturally as the grapes, the bird 

 would not have ventured to come near them/' 



