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THE DOG. 
the mountain. A well-known print represent- 
another of these dogs, which, having found f 
boy whose mother had been destroyed by a" 
avalanche, unhurt, asleep in the hollow of f 
glacier, and almost stiff with cold, deliveret' 
to him the bottle suspended from his necfc 
and, when he had refreshed himself, foun<) 
means to induce him to mount upon his back 
and thus carried him to the gate of the coH' 
vent. This dog, whose name was Barry, poS' 
sessed an instinct so astonishing for thi’ 
humane employment, and a zeal and perse' 
verance so indefatigable, that he had been th^ 
means of rescuing from death upwards d 
forty persons. Having exhausted his strengtl) 
in his philanthropic vocation, the prior of the 
convent sent him to Berne, there to pass the 
remainder of his days in repose. After his death 
his skin was stuffed, and it is now exhibited t^> 
the curious in the museum of Berne, with th^ 
bottle and collar which he bore in his life' 
time. 
