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.

T 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
fellows)

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.