m; he would often ask, "Where is my little dog-boy?"

Edwin Landseer now worked on diligently and quietly; his works were
constantly praised, and he received all the patronage that he desired.
Through the advice of his master, Haydon, he had the habit of dissecting
animals, and learning their anatomy with all the exactness with which
other artists study that of human beings. About 1820 a lion died in the
Exeter Change Menagerie, and Edwin Landseer secured the body for
dissection. He then painted three large pictures of lions, and during the
year in which he became eighteen years old, he exhibited these pictures
and others of horses, dogs, donkeys, deer, goats, wolves, and vultures.

When nineteen, in 1821, he painted "Pointers, To-ho!" a hunting scene,
which was sold in 1872, the year before his death, for two thousand and
sixteen pounds. In 1822 Landseer gained the prize of the British
Institution, one hundred and fifty pounds, by his picture of "The Larder
Invaded." He made the first sketch for this on a child's slate, which is
still preserved as a treasure. But the most famous of this master's early
works is the "Cat's Paw," in which a monkey uses a cat's paw to draw
chestnuts from a hot stove. Landseer was paid one hundred pounds; its
present value is three thousand pounds, and it is kept at the seat of the
Earl of Essex, Cashiobury.

This picture of the "Cat's Paw" had an important result for the young
artist, as it happened that it was exhibited when Sir Walter Scott was in
London, and he was so much pleased with it that he made Landseer's
acquaintance, and invited him to visit Abbotsford. Accordingly, in 1824,
Landseer visited Sir Walter in company with Leslie, who then painted a
portrait of the great novelist, which now belongs to the Ticknor family of
Boston. It was at this time that Sir Walter wrote in his journal:
"Landseer's dogs were the most magnificent things I ever saw, leaping, and
bounding, and grinning all over the canvas." Out of this visit came a
picture called "A Scene at Abbotsford," in which the dog Maida, so loved
by Scott, was the prominent figure; six weeks after it was finished the
dog died.

At this time Sir Walter was not known as the author of the "Waverley
Novels," but in later years Landseer painted a picture which he called
"Extract from a Journal whilst at Abbotsford," to which the following was
attached: "Found the great poet in his study, laughing at a collie dog
playing with Maid