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Giving Doggie a Drink

(87) arrives. One brave Dog, named Barry, of whom was accompanied by a Dog, one had a medal tied round his neck as a of which was the remarkable creature badge of honorable distinction, for he whose services had been so valuable. had saved the lives of forty persons. He Descending from the convent, they were at length died nobly in his vocation. A overwhelmed by two avalanches or Piedmontese courier arrived at St. Ber- heaps of falling snow, and the same nard on a very stormy day, laboring to destruction awaited the family of the make his way to the little village of St. poor courier, who were travelling up the Pierre, in the valley beneath the moun- mountain to find the husband and father. tain, where his wife and children lived.

Our engraving, which represents two It was in vain that the monks attempted children giving the Dogs a drink, happily to check his resolution to reach his family. illustrates the kindness we should always They at last gave him two guides, each show to the brute creation.