Title: The book of dogs; an intimate study of mankind's best friend
Identifier: bookofdogsintima00nati (find matches)
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U. S. ); Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927; Baynes, Ernest Harold, 1868-1925
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: Washington, D. C. , The National geographic society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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88 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
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© Donald McLeish A LIFE-SAVING ST. BERNARD AND HIS MASTER AT THE HISTORIC STEPS OF THE ST. BERNARD MONASTERY: SWITZERLAND One of the most famous dogs of modern times was a St. Bernard—Barry. Among the 40 lives saved by Iiim was a child found in the snow and overcome with the drowsiness which precedes deatli by freezing. The dog restored the child to consciousness by Hcl<ing its face; then crouched in the snow so that the little sufferer might climb upon him and be carried to the monastery on dogback. Over Barry's grave is the inscription: "Barry, the heroic. Saved 40 persons and was killed by the 41st." The tragedy was due to an unfortu- nate mistake, a lost traveler thinking that his dog rescuer was about to attack him dogs of the North. This race is run over the Pembina trail, from Winnipeg to St. Paul. It is a straightaway course nearly 500 miles long. When Albert Campbell, the Cree Indian, drove his team of six dogs across the finish line at St. Paul, making the '^22 miles in 118 hours and 16 seconds, he won the longest dog-race ever held and set a Marathon mark that will be hard to lower. The dogs of the Far North are devoted to their masters, but the eternal cold and the unbroken solitude of the lonely places within the Circl? often make the d^vo-

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