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Show StMl Use Dogs In Alps. Although the tunnels which now connect Switzerland with Italy have greatly decreased the importance of the St. Bernard and other passes, et--pecially during the eight months of snow, it is still deemed advisable to employ St. Bernard dogs. It Is no longer customary, however, to send out the dogs alone with baskets of food and drink; a man always accompanies accom-panies them. These dogs are not really real-ly of the famous old St. Bernard breed. That originated in the fourteenth four-teenth century, through a cross between be-tween a shepherd dog from Wales and a Scandinavian dog whose parents par-ents were a Great Dane and a Py-renei Py-renei n mastiff. The last pure descendant descend-ant of this tribe was buried under an avalanche In 1816. Fortunately, there were found subsequently at Martigny and on the Simplon pass a few dogs which by crossing with mates from Wales yle'ded the modern St. Bernard dog, which Is physically even stronger than his medieval namesake, and shares most of his traits. |