The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-08
solemn mastif's deep isolated bay seemed to give
Just q glimpse of
"The Vastness, the grandeur. the gloom,
OF the unlit gulf of himself"

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Just glimpse OF
"The vaStness, the grandeur, the gloom,
OF the uDlit gulf of himself"
There were sadness and pathos in their pa
tience, and their mdt0tse was not the less deep
for the iortitude with which il was repressed.
The st. Bernards, again, were OF different
and some OF them OF higher mould. The great
st. Bernard "Tell," which received the first
ever saw. II did not show the deep melan-
choly OF the mastlf, but rather the same pro-
found sense of DUTY which sUstains the race in
their benevolent mission in aid OF mankind
amid the SHOWS of the Alps. 'Tel" is a
Berne dog, a "lineal descendant" says the
catalogue, the dog "Barry,n of the st. Ber-
pard Hospice. He endure5 the crowds and
heat of Islngton hall with the same calm
front as the storms and avalanChes OF the Der
nese Alps, and Is quite too strong to speak of
his troubles. He seemed to think that he had
been placed there for purpose which purpose
he would fulfil. There vas no protest in that
severe, that earnest air." We dare maintain
that even on the Home Secretary hinlself-if
the RIGHT honorable baronet visited him and
gazed into his deep, mild eyes-he cast no look
of reproach or pleading. There was ~ his
expression something OF that moral sublmlty
which, according to Kant, reminds one in
differently of stars in the midnight sky or of
the solemn fiat OF human free VIII renouncing
its own cherished desires for the claim of duty.
Not sad and not elate," his was a counte-
nance On which neither terrier nor man could
gaze and again forget Oar little companion,
hitherto amazed, alarmed, surprised by the
many new phenomena in th is chaos OF canine
feeling and opinion, gathered tranquility and
trust in that majestic gaze, and ceased to cover
beneath the restless ewes and iretul barks of
the other iii assorted prisoners. 1t was great
change from this strong, self-contained, heroic
DOG 10 tie deeG-hounds Immediately adjacent.
They were almost the only dogs in the assembly
who seemed to enjoy the social opportunities
OF the place in spite even of their chains. Some
of them, indeed, we're evidently ill, and lay sui
dreaming ieVeTishiy OF park or heather, but
several greeted their visitors with the suavity
and ease oil a polished London hostess, while
one or two laid themselves out for pelting like
beautiful children. There was one ('Brandy,n
47O, who, being chained up too tight to get at
his admirers with his head, turned his graceful
back on his visitors that they might pat II, and
then with eyes reverted watched tue caresseTs
with eager, grateful eyes. This was the least
painful part OF the exhibition.
But when we passed TO the tov dogs in the
gallery, both the physc and moral conditions
OF the case became more distressing. All of
them we're shut up IN separate cages, and had
far worse air to breathe than the lower hall
we hope, by-the-way, that "COndy's patent
fluid" had not been layishe6 here, "at vast eX-
pensc." with such truitless resuus-aDd were
unable to see each other. though the din of
their shrlll and iretlul curiosity was far more
painful than the deeper voices of the dogs
below; and hence the effect upon the mind OF
their free comrade was unspeakably Dainf II.
There we're, indeed, little dogs that could sleep
amid the din, but 1t was not due to any intel
lectual calm, but to the coma induced by the
bad air, or in the case OF the Japanese prize
terrier to sheer oriental lancuor. Stretch I'd
on her luxurious divan, the japanese "Rose'
from Yokohama retired as far as possible into
the dark shadow OF her cage. and did not open
her eyes on the hot and curious spectators.
But the greater number of these little captiyes
yelped bitterly, some even passiOnately, as their
free companion passed, and made lltrle useless
rushes against the bars. We were glad enough
TO get away from the spectacle OF their tedium
and suffering. But II was sad as we were about
to leave the lower hail. near the benches of the
settlers and pointers, to see the universal envy
which animated the poor sp )rting dogs as they
saw little sister apparently about TO escape
into the freedom oil the out0r air. whole
row of them made a rush al her so united that
it shook the wooden partition to which theil
staples were Fastened, and when at length (atlel
getting the necessary passport for a dog out
ward boupd) we emerged and ratified away
from the door of the great canine prison-hOuse
the little creature VINO had accompanied u,
breathed heavy sigh OF relief, and croucheC
| down, keeping a shadow OF depression on hel
| face which would have been very eloquent Il
| Sir George GREY, till she had regained he
! home, and thrown off the oppressive influences
! of her first experience OF canine society on
| large scale. 1t was evidently with a curiou
! conflict OF feeling-awe of the melancholy mas
! tifls, reverence tor the great st. Bernard, pit
! for most, and disgust for some-that she turne
away, as Lord Macaulay says somewhere, "fror
the cheqUerCd spectacle Of so much glory an
! so much shame. .n-LOndOn Spectator.