[XVII.]
THE BEAR “MONARCH.”
HOW HE WAS CAPTURED.
Much having been said about bears of late, a young Californian of great fortune and enterprise resolved to set some questions at rest, and, quite regardless of cost or consequences, sent into the mountains for a live grizzly. The details of his capture, the plain story of the long, wild quest, the courage, the cunning, the final submission of the monster, and then the last bulletin about his health, habits and all that, make so instructive and pleasing a narrative that I have asked for permission to add it to my own stories. The bear described is at present in our San Francisco Zoo, a fine and greatly admired monarch.
“Are there any true grizzly bears in California?”
“Undoubtedly there are.”
“I don’t know about it. I have a great deal of doubt. Where are they?”