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artist’s pet dog distinguished this from a lot of pictures upon 
the floor of the studio by licking 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 
recognised her portrait. 6 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 
bottom of the picture. 5 
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 bung 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- 
teringa 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. 1 
then turned the face of the one on the floor to the room, and he 
