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bouts, and making them eye-witnesses of the cir- 
cumstance^ they began to move the trunk about ; 
when they quickly discovered that it contained 
something that was alive. Suspicion becoming 
very strong, they were induced to force it open ; 
when,, to their utter astonishment, they found in 
it their new lodger, who had been thus conveyed 
into the house with the intention of robbing it. 
A dog that had been the fivorite of an elderly 
lady, discovered some time after her death the 
strongest emotions on the sight of her picture, 
when it was taken down to be cleaned. Before 
this instant he had never been observed to notice 
the painting. Here was evidently a case either of 
passive remembrance, or_ of the involuntary re- 
newal of former impressions. Another dog, the 
property of a gentleman that died, was given to a 
friend in Yorkshire. Several years afterwards, a 
brother from the West Indies paid a short visit 
at the house where the dog then was. He was 
instantly recognized, though an entire stranger, in 
consequence, most probably, of a strong personal 
likeness. The dog fawned upon and followed 
him with great affection to every place where he 
went. # 
Mr. C. Hughes, an actor, had a^vvig, which 
generally hung on a peg in one of his rooms. He 
one day lent the wig to a brother player, and 
some time after called on him. Mr. Hughes had 
his dog with him, and the man happened to have 
the borrowed wig on his head. Mr. Hughes stayed 
a little while with his friend; but, when he left 
him, the dog remained behind : for some time he 
stood, looking full in the man’s face ; then making 
a sudden spring, leaped on his shoulders, seized 
the wig, and ran off with it as fast as he could ; 
and, when he reached home, he endeavoured by 
jumping, to hang it up in its usual place* The 
