XIV.
THE BEAR-SLAYER OF SAN DIEGO.

Let us now leave the great grizzly and
the little marsh bear in spectacles behind
us and tell about a boy, a bear-slayer; not
about a bear, mind you. For the little fish-
eating black bear which he killed and by
which he got his name is hardly worth tell-
ing about. This bear lives in the brush
along the sea-bank on the Mexican and
Southern California coast and has huge
feet but almost no hair. I don’t know
any name for him, but think he resembles
the “sun bear” (Ursus Titanus) more than
any other. His habit of rolling himself up
in a ball.and rolling down hill after you
is like that of the porcus or pig bear. —

You may not know that a bear, any kind
of a bear, finds it hard work running down
hill, because of his short arms, so when a

man who knows anything about bears is
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