To help them in this work they keep a number of the St. Bernard dogs,
which we all know and love so well.
The monks usually go out each day in couples, taking dogs and servants
with them.
The dogs can scent out any poor creature who may lie buried in the snow,
and they run around, sniffing and seeking, seeming thoroughly to
understand what is expected of them. When they find any one, they howl,
and scratch at the snow till their masters come to them.
They are so clever that they often show the monks the way home, when all
traces of the road are shut out by the snow.
Sometimes, when the storm is so bad that the monks dare not venture, the
dogs are sent out alone, each with a little keg of brandy tied round his
neck. They find the travellers, and show them the way to the monastery.
One of these wonderful dogs, named Barri, saved twenty persons from a
horrible death.
GENIE H. ROSENFELD.
We stated, in regard to Oscar of Sweden, that the Prince Oscar who married
Lady Ebba Munck was the eldest son of King Oscar.
We should have said the second son.
THE EDITOR.
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