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One dog is said to have saved in this way as many as
forty-two lives! His name was Barry ; and he was as clever
as he was brave. Once a woman, who was going up the
mountain with her little son, was carried away by a snow-
slip. Barry found the little boy unhurt, but cold and stiff.
He managed, however, to get him on his back; and thus
carried him to the door of the convent, where he was taken

’ good care of by the monks.

 

 

THE AFFECTIONATE POODLE.

A GENTLEMAN residing at Dresden owned a poodle which he
had always treated kindly, and which was very fond of him.
He at length, however, made a present of her to a friend
living about nine miles off. As it was supposed that she
would probably try to return to her former master, she was
tied up till she became the mother of three young puppies ;
and so much taken up with them did she appear, that her
new owner no longer feared she would quit him. He there-
fore gave her her liberty.

Shortly afterwards, however, she and the three puppies
were missing. Search was made for them in vain. At
length her master’s Dresden friend ‘paid him a visit, and told
him that, on the evening before, the poodle had arrived at his
house with one of the puppies in her mouth, and that another
had been found dead on the road.

It seemed that she had started at night, carrying the
pups
certain distance, intending to go .back for the others. She

 

which were still too young to walk—one at.a time, a