X. 



AS A HUMORIST. 



Not long ago, about the time a party of 

 Americans were setting out for India to 

 hunt the tiger, a young banker from New 

 York came to California to hunt what he 

 rightly considered the nobler beast. 



He chartered a small steamer in San 

 Francisco Bay and taking with him a party 

 of friends, as well as a great-grandson of 

 Daniel Boone, a famous hunter, for a 

 guide, he sailed up the coast to the red 

 wood wilderness of Humboldt. Here he 

 camped on the bank of a small stream in 

 a madrona thicket and began to hunt for 

 his bear. He found his bear, an old female 

 with young cubs. As Boone was naturally 

 in advance when the beast was suddenly 

 stumbled upon, he had to do the fighting, 

 and this gave the banker from the States 

 a chance to scramble up a small madrona. 



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