250 British Dogs. 



docility which, with the special aptitude for tracing buried footways and 

 discovering lost travellers, had been developed by keeping these animals 

 to special work, and all of which qualities were essential to their canine 

 assistants in carrying out their arduous and charitable tasks. " Stone- 

 henge' ' speaks of a Newfoundland cross having been tried and failed, and 

 even speaks of Mr. Gresham's Monk as having too much of the Newfound- 

 land type. I confess I can see nothing in Monk of the Newfoundland 

 type, if that be the true type of Newfoundland, as I think it is, which 

 " Stonehenge " has given us in the engraving of Mr. Howard Map plebeck's 

 Leo in his latest work. 



In the Rev. J. Gumming Macdona's imported black and tan dog Meu- 

 thon we had something nearer to the Newfoundland type, but perhaps 

 still closer to the Thibet mastiff. 



To attempt, then, to trace the pedigrees of our present St. Bernards 

 further than has been done in the Kennel Club Stud Book would be fruit- 

 less. We are directed in it to our earlier imported dogs, many of whom 

 had no known pedigree, and to others vaguely referred to as descendants of 

 Barry, a dog that made his name famous by the great number of lives he 

 saved forty -two according to "Idstone" and "Stonehenge," which, 

 however, under the enthusiastic pen of the Eev. Mr. Macdona, becomes 

 seventy-five. 



Be the number of lives saved by Barry more or less, it is impossible for 

 a lover of dogs to refrain from offering a tribute of praise to the noble 

 animal whose life was so beneficently spent, or to withhold generous 

 sympathy with his grandly tragic and yet most becoming death ; he died 

 in harness at the ripe old age of fifteen years by the hand of a benighted 

 traveller to whom he was carrying life and hope, and who, mistaking his 

 would-be preserver for a wolf, killed him. 



It was not until dog shows had been some years established that a 

 class was made for St. Bernards ; this was first done at the show held 

 March, 1863, in the Ashburnham Hall, Cremorne, first and second prizes 

 being won by dogs with no written pedigree, but both bred by the monks 

 of St. Bernard ; these were the Eev. A. N. Bate's Monk and Mr. W. H. 

 Stone' s Monk, bred in this country from two dogs imported from St. Bernard 

 Hospital when puppies. Shortly after this the Eev. J. Gumming Mac- 

 dona, whose importation of Tell was the foundation of the grandest 

 team of St. Bernards that has existed in this country, with the exception 



