The narrative that Barry was killed after his 40th rescue of 41 people how to read on his monument stands is incorrect. In fact, he spent his last two years in Bern. Invented is probably also that he always carried a keg with alcohol for solace of buried around the neck, or even brought a child that had crashed to climb on his back. Secured is against the fact that he and the other dogs of the hospice, local guides accompanied who left in order of canons daily routes to the hospice. They eased the guides finding and committing the often snowy paths and had even under adverse conditions the way back. Moreover, they showed with their barking to exhausted or accident travelers. Some dogs were accustomed to occasionally carry small packsaddles food. A clergyman of the hospice said in 1956, "As for the Rumfässchen, so the dogs have at no time carried a". The boys ride, so wearing a child on the back, is a literary motif that before birth Barrys existed. even today St. Bernard would be such a power, as described in the legend, either physically or mentally able. on death Barry, who was reportedly held and stabbed by a Napoleonic soldier for a wolf, it is said that the hero declared rescue dog here provide a well heroic death was imputed. Historically it was only that Napoleonic soldier crossed the pass and there were wolves at this time. 1812 Barry was brought at the request of the Priors of the hospice to Bern and died there 1814 of old age. the dog cemetery of Asnieres-sur-Seine, near Paris, a monument was erected for Barry.

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