. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 220 THE BEASTS OF PREY. benefits received; but his memory of injuries and castigations abides for a long time, and he may become dangerous to people who intentionally tor- ment him. The St. Bernard The St. Bernard Dog (Cams familiaris Dog, the extrarius st. bernardi) resembles the Worthiest of All. Newfoundland. Tschudi says: "The St. Bernards are large, remarkably strong animals, with long fur, short, wide muzzle, and long ears. They are exce
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 220 THE BEASTS OF PREY. benefits received; but his memory of injuries and castigations abides for a long time, and he may become dangerous to people who intentionally tor- ment him. The St. Bernard The St. Bernard Dog (Cams familiaris Dog, the extrarius st. bernardi) resembles the Worthiest of All. Newfoundland. Tschudi says: "The St. Bernards are large, remarkably strong animals, with long fur, short, wide muzzle, and long ears. They are exceedingly intelligent and faithful. Their breed was kept pure during four generations, but is now no longer so, because so many of these Dogs. Ber„aTnwTl,n^RKP,D0G-^Whilr'tl,e,r-"l*8 ",ay hilve *reater capabilities as Beasts of Prey the St have perished in avalanches encountered in their faithful service. A closely allied Dog is now being bred, and even young Pups of this breed bring a good price. Noble Service "The native home of these noble ani- oftheSt. mals is the Hospice of St. Bernard Bernard Dog. situated at an elevation of about seven thousand five hundred feet above the sea, on a desolate mountain crest, in the vicinity of which winter lasts for eight or nine months. It is only in summer that large snow-flakes fall in this locality m winter dry, small, brittle crystals of ice fall there: so fine that the wind drives them through every crevice in doors and windows. Near the monastery ially, the wind often piles these crystals in walls of snow, fro* thirty to forty feet high covering all roads ai -1 -the edges of the precipices' and falling down inn the latter at the slightest knock. , "The journey acros. this old mountain pass is de- void of danger, even , n summer, only during clear weather. On days, or during the winter months, when the numerous clefts and precipices arc covered with snow, the passage is fraught with much danger and trouble
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