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chance I placed the picture of my hostess 

 on the ground. Immediately her old spaniel 

 came and gazed intently at the face for 

 several seconds. Then he smelt at the 

 canvas, and, unsatisfied, walked round and 

 investigated the back. Finally, having dis- 

 covered the deception, he turned away in 

 manifest disgust, and nothing that we could 

 do or say, on that day or on any other, would 

 induce that dog to look at that picture again. 

 We then tried him by putting my portrait of 

 his master also on the ground, but he simply 

 gave it a kind of casual contemptuous side- 

 glance and took no further notice of it. We 

 attributed this not to any difference in the 

 merits or demerits of the two portraits, but 

 simply to the fact that the dog felt he had 

 been deceived once, but was not to be so 

 taken in again. 



LOUISA STARR CANZIANI. 



