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Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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MRS CHARLES WATERLOW S CH. STANMORE ARGUS BY BILL FOLLETTE. Photograph by T. Fall. vivacity. Their size and temperament renderthem particularly suitable for living in ahouse or flat ; they are quiet and yetbright, full of life yet not too boisterous. 63 CHAPTER V. THE ST. BERNARD. BY FREDK. GRESHAM. Behold this creatures form and state,Which Nature therefore did create.That to the world might be expressedWhat mien there can be in a beast ;And that we in this shape may findA lion of another kind.For this heroic beast does seemIn majesty to rival him,
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I the late CH. FLORENTIUS BY PRINCE OF FLORENCE BELLINE III. THE PATRIARCH OF MRS. JAGGERS KENNELS. ^HE his-tory ofthe St.Bernard dog inthis countrywould not becomplete with-out referencebeing made tothe noble workthat he has donein Switzerland,his native land:how the Hos-pice St. Bernard kept a considerable num-ber of dogs which were trained to goover the mountains with small barrelsround their necks, containing restoratives,in the event of their coming across anypoor travellers who had either lost theirway, or had been overcome by the cold.We have been told that these intelligentcreatures saved many lives in this way,the subjects of their deliverance oftenbeing found entirely buried in the snow.In such cases they were, however, gene-rally too late to rescue the unfortunatevictims, whose bodies were placed in themorgue at the Hospice, where they may beseen undecayed, although they may haverested there several years. The stuffed skin of the dog Barry, whorescued no fewer than forty wa

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