MUSIC-LOVING BEARS. 35 



Well, we have different kinds of bears. I 

 know little of the Polar bear, and so say 

 nothing positively of him. I am told, how- 

 ever, that there is not, considering his size, 

 much snap or grit about him; but as for 

 the others, I am free to say that they live 

 and die like gentlemen. 



I shall find time, as we go forward, to 

 set down many incidents out of my own 

 experience to prove that the bear is often 

 a humorist, and never by any means a bad 

 fellow. 



Judge Highton, odd' as it may seem, has 

 left the San Francisco bar for the "bar" of 

 Mount Shasta every season for more than 

 a quarter of a century, and he probably 

 knows more about bears than any other 

 eminently learned man in the world, and 

 Henry Highton will tell you that the bear 

 is a good fellow at home, good all through, 

 a brave, modest, sober old monk. 



A monkish Robin Hood 

 In his good green wood. 



