Dog of St. Bernard and Other Stories

Project Gutenberg's Dog of St. Bernard and Other Stories, by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Dog of St. Bernard and Other Stories Author: Anonymous Release Date: November 8, 2007 [EBook #23406] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOG OF ST. BERNARD *** Produced by Irma Spehar, Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) NATURAL HISTORY SERIES TDOG OF S . BERNARD AND OTHER STORIES. PRINTED IN OIL COLORS McLOUGHLIN BROS. PUBLISHERS NEW YORK. THE DOG OF ST. BERNARD. T. BERNARD is the name of one of the high mountains of the Alps. The deep snow hangs so loosely on the sides of these mountains, that great masses often fall into the plains below, with a noise like thunder. Wild snow storms also come on, and the passes in the mountains become so blocked up and covered over, that it is impossible to find them out. In this way many travelers have perished, and been buried in a deep snowy grave. Far, far up the mountain there is a building called the Convent of St. Bernard. Here is found that wonderful race of dogs called the Dogs of St.