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it, and barked at it repeatedly, and was evidently puzzled 
and scared by it.” 
Miss Alice M. Chaplin, whose charming terra-cotta groups 
of kittens at play, and statuettes of the Queen’s favourite 
dogs, have attracted so much interest during the last few 
years in the Royal Academy exhibition, sends me the fol- 
lowing account: “A very sharp little ginger-coloured terrier, 
Tricksey, came into a room where a drawing, representing a 
stately cat crouching -before a dead bird, had been placed on 
the floor against a chair by accident. The drawing was in 
black and white crayon, life size. Tricksey sprang into my 
lap in a caressing way, and in turning round caught sight 
of the drawing. She pricked her ears, and, uttering her cat 
war-cry, rushed towards it, but, coming into collision with 
nothing but paper, she turned tail, and took no further notice 
of the drawing.” 
The above seem to leave no room for doubt as to the 
identity of the impression made by pictorial and other repre- 
sentations on the mind of the dog, with that conveyed to 
ourselves by the same objects. Some dogs, however, cannot 
be induced to express any emotion, or, like the savage, they, 
perhaps, assume the nil admirari attitude of mind, and will 
not be betrayed into any indication of surprise. Individuals 
among them, too, may be exceptionally observant, and, having 
quietly compared our paintings and models with their ideas 
of the real objects, have come to the conclusion that we are 
trying to hoax them, and refuse to be parties to any insult 
to their dignity and understanding. “These things are all 
very well in their way,” we may suppose the philosophical 
dog saying to himself, “but I have taken the measure of 
them. They may trick my eye for a moment, but they can- 
not also delude my sense of smell.” 
The extraordinary liking displayed by some dogs, not to any 
individual master, but to a particular occupation, is one of 
the most singular traits in canine character, which no other 
animal seems to exhibit. About twenty years ago, a dog took 
