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■artist's pet dog distinguished this from a lot of pictures upon 

 the floor of the studio by Hcking the face of the portrait.' 



Again, I learn from Dr. Samuel Wilks, F.R.S,, that a 

 friend of his, whom I shall call Mrs. E., has a terrier which 

 flrecognised her portrait. ' The portrait is now (1881) hang- 

 ing in the Royal Academy. When it first arrived home 

 the dog barked at it, as it did at strangers ; but after a 

 day or two, when Mrs. E. opened the door to show the 

 portrait to some friends, the dog went straight to the 

 picture and licked the hand. The picture is a three- 

 quarter length portrait of a lady with the hand at the 

 iDottom of the picture.' 



Lastly, my sister, who is a very conscientious and accu- 

 rate observer, witnessed a most unmistakable recognition 

 of portraits as representative of persons on the part of a 

 small but intelligent terrier of her own. At my request 

 she committed the facts to writing shortly after they 

 occurred. The following is her statement of them : — 



I have a small terrier who attained the age of eight months 

 without ever having seen a large picture. One day three nearly 

 life-sized portraits were placed in my room during his absence. 

 Two were hung up, and one left standing against the wall on 

 the floor awaiting the arrival of a picture-rod. When the dog 

 •entered the room he appeared much alarmed by the sight of the 

 pictures, barking in a terrified manner first at one and then at 

 another. That is to say, instead of attacking them in an aggres- 

 sive way with tail erect, as he would have done on thus encoun- 

 tering a strange person, he barked violently and incessantly at some 

 distance from the paintings, with tail down and body elongated, 

 sometimes bolting under the chairs and sofas in the extremity of 

 his fear, and continuing barking from there. Thinking it might 

 be merely the presence of strange objects in the room which 

 -excited him, I covered the faces of the portraits with cloths 

 and turned the face of the one on the floor to the wall. The 

 dog soon after emerged from his hiding-place, and having looked 

 intently at the covered pictures and examined the back of the 

 frame on the ground, became quite quiet and contented. I 

 then uncovered one of the pictures, when he immediately flew 

 at it, barking in the same frightened manner as before. I then 

 re-covered that one and took the cover off" another. The dog left 

 the covered one and rushed at the one which was exposed. I 

 then turned the face of the one on the floor to the room, and he 



