CHAPTER XLI PAGE 573 



THE ST. BERNARD: What the dog's real duties are in the Al- 

 pine passes A much mixed race at the Hospice Im- 

 provement first due to Swiss breeders and then to 

 English cultivation The Leasome Castle Mastiff or St. 

 Bernard Landseer's dogs of St. Gothard Queen Vic- 

 toria's St. Bernards The breed in England General 

 Lafayette's present of dogs to J. F. Skinner The high- 

 water mark of the Sir Bedivere period Present status of 

 the breed Standard and Scale of Points. 



CHAPTER XLII PAGE 589 



THE NEWFOUNDLAND: A modern English development from a 

 mixed lot of common dogs of various colours, coats and 

 sizes. 



