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and my wife took him up on her lap again. I do not think 
anyone except myself noticed him at that moment, but 
presently he began to growl again, and slid down from his 
place as before (this time he got over the lion’s skin all 
right), and walked slowly, tail up and muzzle pointing 
straight for the black Newfoundland. When he got very 
close to its nose, he turned away, disgusted apparently—his 
views on art needed expanding! 
“Do you remember how we took in your dog, Carlo IL, 
with the life-sized painting of the black cat lying on a 
leopard’s skin rug, with a brass fender behind? We put 
the picture (unframed) in among some curtains, so that there 
was nothing round it to distract the eye. Carlo, on being 
placed where he could see the painting, paused a moment 
with cocked ears, and then walked unhesitatingly to the 
picture, behaving, when he got close, much as the pup did.” 
(Mr. Nettleship has forgotten to say that a Clumber spaniel 
also exhibited some excitement on first seeing this picture. ] 
“TI was once finishing,’ he continues, “a life-sized portrait 
of the Lyme Hall mastiff, Lion, now dead, and there was 
in the studio, at the time, a young mastiff. Away in one 
corner, but very visible, was a painting of a black retriever. 
The young mastiff woke from a doze, as he lay in the 
middle of the studio, raised his head, looked steddily at the 
picture of the retriever, and growled; then he went to sleep 
again. Some time afterwards he woke, and was placed in 
front of,. but’ at some distance from, the portrait of the 
mastiff. He was being held in a leash, but he went right 
at the picture, dragging the man along with him. 
“ Apropos of dogs noticing works of art not in the animal 
line, the bull terrier ‘Spot,’ belonging to your friend Riches, 
got very much excited over a small plaster cast, about 2ft. 
high, of the ‘Discobolos’ (the standing, not the stooping 
one), which was placed in a corner of the studio. This was 
towards evening, and the cast shone white out.of the corner, 
but its human shape was unmistakable. The dog worried at 
