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taking the tour till this year, when, to my delight, I 

 was able to start for the land of the Switzers on the 

 1 5th of June, 1893. 



" Leaving home on the I5th June, I travelled via 

 Calais and Paris to Lausanne, where I saw several 

 St. Bernards, both rough and smooth coated, most 

 of them very poor specimens. 



" On the i Qth I went to Berne, and the first visit 

 I paid there was to M. H. Schumacher's. I found 

 him at home, and he took me to see the only two St. 

 Bernards he had, a smooth dog and a rough bitch ; 

 the former was a very tall animal, fully 34 inches 

 high at the shoulder, symmetrical in shape, fair in 

 bone, but sadly weak in muzzle. The rough bitch 

 was only ten months old, handsome in colour 

 and markings, though too small and weedy. M. 

 Schumacher informed me that they had lost a 

 great many of their best dogs during the last twelve 

 months from influenza, but he said I should find a 

 very good dog at Worb, a village about nine miles 

 from Berne. 



"After dinner at the hotel, I started for Worb at 

 seven p.m. My driver, quite a jolly fellow, spoke 

 English well, and enlivened the journey by giving 

 me some interesting accounts of the villages we 

 passed through. It was nearly dark when we 

 arrived at Worb (Worb is supposed to be the 



