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the travellers by rushing up to them, wagging their 

 tails, licking the hands of the visitors, and so 

 escorting them to the Hospice. It will thus be seen 

 that the dogs are very docile and quiet whilst loose 

 and roaming about. 



" At 8 p.m. the attendant called all the dogs to- 

 gether to be put up for the night. They stood in a 

 row, and came up as he called them to be kennelled. 

 Some of the kennels were loose boxes in the cow 

 places on the ground-floor or cellar of the Hospice, 

 the others in a similar place under the Refuge. The 

 Refuge is the building near the Hospice, which was 

 built for the inmates of the Hospice to resort to in 

 the case of fire, and the Hospice has been twice 

 burned down. When the dogs are kennelled they 

 become quite fierce, and bark savagely if a stranger 

 approaches their kennels. 



" Next we were taken by one of the monks to see 

 the library, museum, and chapel. In the latter is a 

 painting of Bernard de Menthon and his dog, which 

 we are asked to believe is the actual progenitor of the 

 present race of St. Bernards. It is, however, but a 

 common-looking creature, smooth coated, red in 

 colour, about the size of a pointer, and as unlike the 

 modern race as possible. At this I could not be 

 surprised, as the painting had been executed some 

 hundreds of years after the founder of the monastery 



