energies.

Before Edwin Landseer was eight years of age his father had taught him
the process of etching, and we see that even then the lad had a vivid
insight into the character of animals. He drew pictures of pointers,
mastiffs, spaniels and bulldogs, and gave to each the right expression.

The Landseers owned several dogs, and what they did not own they
borrowed; and once we know that Charles and Thomas "borrowed" a mastiff
without the owner's consent.

All children go through the scissors age, when they cut out of magazines,
newspapers or books all the pictures they can find, so as to add to the
"collection." Often these youthful collectors have specialties: one will
collect pictures of animals, another of machinery, and still another of
houses. But usually it is animals that attract.

Scissors were forbidden in the Landseer household, and if the boys wanted
pictures they had to make them.

And they made them.

They drew horses, sheep, donkeys, cattle, dogs; and when their father
took them to the Zoological Garden it was only that they might bring back
trophies in the way of lions and tigers.

Then we find that there was once a curiosity exhibited in Fleet Street in
the way of a lion-cub that had been caught in Africa and mothered by a
Newfoundland dog. The old mother-dog thought just as much of the orphan
that was placed among her brood as of her sure-enough children. The owner