THE ST. BERNARD DOG. 1X9Q

before day. Resolving, at all events, to keep his hands clear
of them, he corrected his dog in great wrath, left the sheep
once more, and taking colley with him, rode off a second
time. He had not ridden above a mile, till he perceived that
his assistant had again given him the slip; and suspecting
' for what purpose, he was terribly alarmed as well as chagrined;
for daylight now approached, and he durst not make a noise
calling on his dog, for fear of alarming the neighbourhood,
in a place where they were both well known. He resolved
therefore to abandon the animal to himself, and take a road
across the country which he was sure the other did not know,
and could not follow. He took that road; but being on
horseback, he could not get across the enclosed fields. He
at length came to a gate, which he shut behind him, and
went about half a mile farther, by a zigzag course, to a
farm-house where both his sister and sweetheart lived; and
at that place he remained until after breakfast time. The
people of this house were all examined on the trial, and no
one had either seen the sheep or heard them mentioned, save
one man, who came up to the aggressor as he was standing
at the stable-door, and told him that his dog had the sheep
safe enough down at the Crooked Yett, and he needed not
hurry himself. He answered, that the sheep were not his—
they were young Mr. Thomson’s, who had left them to his
charge, and he was in search of a man to drive them, which
made him come off his road.” The fidelity of this animal
cost his master his life.

The St. The St. Bernard Dog always honoured for
Bernard Dog. his work’s sake, resembles the Newfoundland in
form, hair, colour, and size. “There is another race,” says
Colonel Smith, “trained to the same service, with close
short hair, and more or less marked with grey, liver colour
and black clouds.” Bass, a famous St. Bernard, the property
of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, is thus described by him in
a letter to Mr. W. H. Lizars printed in Vol. XIX of “The