RAGES OF DOGS. 



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in a snow-drift, to dig him out, bearing on their necks, in little casks 

 1 or bundles, cordials or food for his restoration or nourishment. The 

 representation we give is a portrait of a somewhat famous animal 

 owned in England. 



The intelligence manifested by these animals is marvelous. 

 They learn the needs of exhausted travelers, and supply them with 



Fm. 1388.— St. Bernard Dog. 



alacrity, and in their benevolent efforts shame many a representative 

 of the human family. 



Five centuries ago a mastiff of the Pyrenees was crossed with a 

 bitch of Denmark, on the Great St. Bernard Mountain in the Alps, 

 and from their progeny descended the race which has made for itself 

 in all those centuries such a glorious notoriety. The beneficent 

 work of the St. Bernard monks with their dogs may be thus 

 detailed : — 



" In the winter the service of the male dogs (the females are 

 employed or engaged only at the last extremity) is regulated as 

 follows : Two dogs, one old and one young, travel over every 

 morning the route on the Italian side of the mountain toward 



