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means of saving one more life. He commenced to 

 bark for assistance, and to tug and coax the half- 

 frozen man, in order to awake him and receive any 

 message the man might be able to send in for help ; 

 but the man was unfortunately ignorant of the 

 dog's proffered kindness, and beat poor Barry over 

 the head until he was dead ; and thus Barry gave 

 his life, as many have done, a sacrifice to man's 

 blind and hasty judgment. The kind people of 

 Switzerland have recently erected a large and 

 beautiful monument to the memory of poor faithful 

 Barry ; and I here declare, that there is not another 

 monument on earth I would prefer to have assisted 

 in building. 



A short time ago, I read this incident in an east- 

 ern paper. A little girl was playing on a wharf 

 when she fell into the water, and was washed 

 out some distance from the shore. Her faith- 

 ful dog plunged after her, and by great and pro- 

 longed effort brought the child near enough to be 

 lifted out by some person who had rushed to the 

 rescue ; but the poor dog was so exhausted that he 

 could not accept assistance, and sank beneath the 

 waves to rise no more. 



The New York Times gives an account of a fire 



