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same origin as the present St. Bernard; at least, this assumption 

 is worthy of investigation. 



HEINRICH SCHUMACHER. 



HOLLIGEN, AtlgUSt 24//J, 1886." 



Here a further reference to Mr. Schumacher's Barry I., often 

 styled the regenerator of the breed, may be made. Though 

 modern St. Bernard breeders are ever ready to acknowledge their 

 indebtedness to Barry I., yet few have any idea what the dog was 

 like. Fig. 23 will, however, show present-day fanciers that 

 massiveness and depth of head at least characterised this dog of 



FIG. 23. HEAD OF ST. BERNARD BARRY 



other days. It was not until 1891 that the present generation 

 of fanciers were enabled to see what manner of dog, as judged by 

 head properties, Barry I. was like. In that year Mr. Schumacher 

 came across, by accident, an old daguerreotype that had been taken 

 of himself and his wife, with Barry I. lying at their feet, and that 

 had been buried for thirty-five years. This Mr. Schumacher placed 

 at the disposal of the late Mr. Hugh Dalziel, and the half-tone 

 illustration (Fig. 23) is the result. 



Without entering into controversy as to the origin of the St. 

 Bernard, or whether the breed had existed in its purity for five 

 hundred years, as stated by H. Schumacher in 1886, his communi- 

 cation will always prove interesting to the true St. Bernard lover, 



