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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