A Sportsman 23 



of my life, and I had the pleasure at a later period 

 of making a gift of $25,000 to my elder brother, 

 whose wants were greater than mine. 



One of our New Hampshire men was a graduate 

 of Yale College, and after the hunting trip I saw 

 him engaged in the water business in San Fran- 

 cisco, he having acquired, with his capital obtained 

 in hunting, an artesian well, from which he was 

 distributing the water in carts. 



Bennet was a remarkable character in his way, 

 and never went out of the way to avoid a grizzly 

 bear, and killed three during our excursion. He was 

 of medium height and very muscular, and double- 

 jointed. He was very jolly and good-natured when 

 normal, but quick to quarrel when in liquor, which 

 was not infrequent, and would often fill up on his 

 trips to the bay, and on one excursion to the boat 

 engaged in a terrific hand fight with the burly land- 

 lord of the Alviso Hotel, whom he laid up for re- 

 pairs. He was a very fast runner, and claimed he 

 could outrun a horse on a spurt. I saw him kill a 

 large grizzly in an open wild-oat field one morning, 

 which we observed at a considerable distance, as we 

 arose. This, Bennet immediately claimed he would 

 kill. The bear was dangerously situated for reaching 

 and attacking, from being so far in the open without 

 any sheltering trees or rocks. The bear was feeding 

 upon wild oats, a favorite food. 



After a hasty breakfast, we mounted and accom- 

 panied Bennet, and, being at the leeward, passed 

 down a declivity and through some timber as near 

 as we thought we could without being observed, 

 and here separated. Bennet picketed his horse, and 



