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Convent of St Bernard, Switzerland: a distressed woman in Swiss peasant costume is standing in the snow outside a monastery and pleads to two monks pointing in the distance, the monks are sending out their St. Bernard dog for rescue. Stipple engraving by F. Stone after W. Holl.

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Convent of St Bernard, Switzerland: a distressed woman in Swiss peasant costume is standing in the snow outside a monastery and pleads to two monks pointing in the distance, the monks are sending out their St. Bernard dog for rescue. Stipple engraving by F. Stone after W. Holl.