FROM THE " SPECTA TOR" 1 27 



[May 26, 1894.] 



MANY years ago I had a similar experience 

 to Mr. Frank Wright. A likeness of myself, 

 head and shoulders, drawn in chalk from a 

 photograph, and enlarged to nearly life size, 

 hung on the dining-room wall of a house I 

 then occupied. One evening my wife silently 

 called my attention to a young English 

 terrier, who had not been very long with 

 us, looking up at it very steadfastly. He 

 regarded it for about a minute in silence, 

 and at last broke out into a loud bark, 

 which I supposed to mean that in his 

 opinion the wall was not my proper place, 

 and that only an evil genius could have 

 set anything like me in such a position. 



G. 



\June 2, 1894.] 



You were so good as to insert my little 

 account of the politeness of a parrot in the 

 Spectator, will you now allow me also to bear 

 witness to the recognition of a likeness by a 

 dog ? Some time ago I was painting two 

 portraits in the country, and one day by 



