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known as the San Diego College of Letters, 

 is still farther on up the warm sea bank. 

 San Francisco lies several hundred miles 

 on up the coast beyond Los Angeles. Then 

 conies Oregon, then Washington, one of 

 the newest States, and then Canada, then 

 Alaska, and at last the North Pole, which, 

 by the way, is almost as far as the South 

 Pole from my subject : The Bear-Slayer of 

 San Diego. 



He was a little Aztec Indian, brown as a 

 berry, slim and slender, very silent, very 

 polite and not at all strong. 



It was said that he had Spanish blood 

 in his veins, but it did not show through 

 his tawny skin. It is to be conceded, how- 

 ever, that he had all the politeness and 

 serene dignity of the proudest Spanish don 

 in the land. 



He was now, by the kind favor of those 

 good ladies w r ho had heard of his daring 

 address in killing the bear with his knife, 

 a student of the San Diego College of Let- 

 ters, where there were several hundred 



