Show Tho The Painters Painter's Do Dos Doj Mrs Irs Ritchie the daughter of or William Wil liam llam Makepeace Mak Thackeray the English English Eng Eng- lish novelist writes of ot visits when she was a child to Sir Edwin EdwlD Landseer the animal painter She says Sir Edwin was WIlS delightful company and that be told the children many stories of ot animals an an- minis as h he stood painting at his hi huge canvases I remember she says lays his telling us an anecdote of one of his hla dogs He was In the time habit of taking him out oit every day when his bis work was over The ie dog used to wait walt patiently all day long iong while Sir Edwin was painting but be lie used 1 to come and lie Ue down at his fe feet t and look up In his bis face tace toward five o'clock and on one one- occasion finding that no notice was taken of ot his hints he be trotted into lato the the hall hull and came back with the painters painter's hat bat which he laid at hIs hla feet feeL of |