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he had found them so expensive that he had given 

 them up. 



" At Brieg we went to see M. Seiler Muller, who 

 is a large breeder of St. Bernards. He disposes of, 

 they say, one hundred dogs each year. Here I was 

 first introduced to three smooth puppies, three-and-a- 

 half months old, of very fair type ; then came a dog 

 and a bitch, fourteen months old, they were on the 

 small side, the dog had just a fair head, the bitch 

 was poor in that respect. Then came another bitch, 

 with three nicely-marked young puppies ; the dam 

 was of rather nice type. The next to appear was a 

 big-headed dog, middling in size and bone, he had 

 an enormous skull, wide muzzle, which was deficient 

 in depth, he was full in the cheeks, his ears were set 

 a little too high ; still this was a fair all-round dog. 

 I saw several others, but there was nothing extra- 

 ordinary neither here nor at Zermatt, where M. Muller 

 keeps some of his dogs. Still, there was plenty of 

 fair breeding stock. 



" I was much disappointed in not finding any St. 

 Bernard dogs at the Simplon Hospice, and continued 

 our journey to Domo d'Ossola, Italy, and then forward 

 to Lake Maggiore, where we stayed at the Grand 

 Hotel Palanza, by the banks of the water. Here we 

 saw a handsome, rough-coated St. Bernard. He is 

 fourteen years old, terribly fat and wheezy; rather 



