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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