8. 'That is because we have been kind to him. Hi, good dog!' and Dora threw her ball to the very end of the garden, and watched her new friend run after it.
9. 'Do you think, Harry,' she asked, 'that he would save us if we were buried in the snow?'
St Bernard Dog.
'No, he is not a dog of that kind, and is not big enough. The big St Bernard dogs save people when they are lost in the snow.
10. 'But all dogs are good for something. Look at the shepherd's dog.'
'What can he do?'
11. 'Oh, he is a wise fellow! He knows just where his master means the sheep to go, and, if they go the wrong way, he turns them back, and never hurts one of them. Why, the shepherd does nothing but walk on, telling the dog now and again what to do.'
The Sheep Dog.