THE MODERN ST. BERNARD. 57 



breed, which is extraordinarily large and handsome. His intention was laudable and worthy of 

 acknowledgment. But these dogs shared the same fate as those of Newfoundland some fifty years 

 previous. Their long hair was their ruin ; they perished ; and at present there does not exist 

 in the Hospice a single trace of these beautiful dogs of Leonberg. 



" As already said, the Count of Rougemont, at Loewenberg, near Morat, possessed a couple 

 of superb dogs, which were presented to him from the Hospice, because they were not good enough 

 for the work on account of their long hair. These dogs were very large and very handsome ; 

 the colour of their coats was a red-brown, and they had white spots on their feet, their 

 necks, their breasts, and their noses (? muzzle). They were on the paternal side of the ancient 

 Bernardine race, and on the maternal side of the Newfoundland race. Several litters of pups were 

 reared from this couple, which were given away and sold, and thus became spread about. In 1854 

 the female dog gave birth, among others, to a little pup of wretched appearance, spotted white and 

 brown, which was not at all valued by the owner. This wretched-looking little pup was sold as a 

 miserable abortion to Mr. Klopfenstein, of Neunegg, who trained it with care and attention. It 

 prospered marvellously, and, growing up, attained a striking likeness to Barry, the most beautiful 

 specimen of the ancient unmixed race, which is now preserved in the museum at Berne. Its 

 resemblance was so remarkable in regard to external appearance and colour of its hair, that when 

 I saw the dog for the first time I resolved to obtain it at whatever sacrifice. 



"I bought, then, this dog in 1855, it being a year old, and called it Barry, on account 

 of its striking resemblance to its illustrious ancestor. I entrusted it to Baron Judd, at 

 Glockenthal, near Thun, and both of us reared some young dogs during many years, but without 

 success. Never could we get young dogs resembling the original race, until 1863, when a pup 

 was born from the bitch Weyerman, of Interlaken, of which Barry was the father. This pup, 

 named Sultan, which was the image of Barry, came into my possession. 



" I bred from Sultan without success until I received a bitch from Saint Galles whose 

 father had been one of the St. Bernard dogs. This bitch, named Diana, with Sultan, produced 

 such beautiful pups, that at last I saw my end achieved. At the second birth were two, male 

 and female, so surpassingly fine that I resolved in silence to present them as a gift to the 

 Hospice, in the belief that these dogs, habituated now to the fourth generation to a temperate 

 climate, well selected from generation to generation, would invigorate and regenerate the ancient 

 race with the descendants of its proper blood. The gift was accepted. I took them when they 

 were seven years old, in January, 1866, to Martigny, where some of the old brothers pass the 

 winter. The oldest of the monks received me with this exclamation : ' Mais, man Dieu, cest 

 comme le vieux Barry ! ' (Why, it is exactly like the old Barry !). I asked him which Barry he 

 alluded to. ' Why,' said he, ' to the one that is stuffed at Berne ; ' and then he continued to 

 relate that in the year 1815 he had himself taken Barry, then living, on foot to Berne, where 

 he was killed and stuffed. The old man wept with joy, and said, without ceasing : ' fa donnera 

 Barry, le vrai vieux Barry ; queje suis heureux! ' (This is Barry, the genuine old Barry, how happy 

 I am!). There are at the present time (1867) at the Hospice some young pups of Barry that 

 promise well, and which will be, according to all appearances, still finer and larger than Barry 

 himself." 



Thus far M. Schumacher, a gentleman whom St. Bernard breeders regard, apparently 

 with justice, as the re-founder of their favourite race. His views being so universally 

 respected, his information on the subject is especially valuable. We therefore attach con- 

 siderable importance to his remarks on colour. The puppy Barry, it will be seen, was 

 8 



