XVI. 



MONNEHAN, THE GREAT BEAR- 

 HUNTER OF OREGON. 



He wore a tall silk hat, the first one I 

 had ever seen, not at all the equipment of 

 "a mighty hunter before the Lord;" but 

 Phineas Monnehan, Esq., late of some cas- 

 tle (I forget the name now), County of 

 Cork, Ireland, would have been quite an- 

 other personage with another sort of hat. 

 And mighty pretension made he to great 

 estates and titles at home, but greatest of 

 all his claims was that of "a mighty 

 hunter." 



Clearly he had been simply a schoolmas- 

 ter at home, and had picked up all his 

 knowledge of wild beasts from books. He 

 had very impressive manners and had come 

 to Oregon with an eye to political promo- 

 tion, for he more than once hinted to my 

 quiet Quaker father, on whose hospitality 



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