Don Horacio 



Swedenborg, Don Quixote, Mr. Mi- 

 cawber and Colonel Sellers. 



He delighted in schemes, projects 

 and enterprises of every sort, finan- 

 cial, industrial, scientific, romantic and 

 sentimental, and was never without 

 something in hand for promotion. 

 Many of his undertakings were short- 

 lived and quickly came to grief ; but 

 his hopeful spirit never knew the 

 pang of failure, and none of his most 

 visionary projects ever wholly van- 

 ished before he had conceived some 

 new and better thing;. If an unwill- 

 ing capitalist positively and, perhaps, 

 rudely refused to engage in some 

 proposed enterprise today, Cutter al- 

 ways knew a much richer and every- 



was successively keeper of stores and super- 

 intendent of parks and herds to the chief of 

 the district in which he lived," while Cutter 

 was also a storekeeper in early life and subse- 

 quently a self-appointed, unofficial guardian 

 of the animals and birds in Golden Gate 

 Park. 



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