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Show PAltT IIOAT AMI PAItrilEtlt. A !I1.AIU)L1 EAN mANCISCO tllt'AK 11IATCOUI.D hATllOUIONNlUUSi. hion t$ Sanliiuiltco rramtntr Hlsnumols Bam, aud he Is neither goat nor deer. To look at him ono would suppose he wss a dicr, excelling excell-ing hu had no horns ss a respectnblo buck should have. Hut wheu one learns ubout his sturendous appetite, how lastly ho digests ojsler cans and Motions of bathed wlrolcucm, ono has no uultitlon lu renouncing him u goat, nlbelt ho is a llttlo Llii.se. The until of the matter Is, lie It half goat and half deer. Whether his paternal ancestor was an omnivorous billy er a man)-irongiil man)-irongiil buck Is n matter that Is not contained In history; but ho has no whiskers, and en that nccouut the wind la his deadly dead-ly enem). He has other fots, too. All Iho small bojsln tho neighborhood neigh-borhood ot 111) Vnleucla stieet, white Bam resides, delight to hurl brlolibals andcobblistonesat him. That Is only when ho Is tied up, for Bam can protect pro-tect himself from an oblect with the velocity end force of a ball from an elRlit-lncli brotcu.loadltiK gun, and It U a source of great satisfaction lo him to occasionally collldo with u mischievous small boy. Hencu the circumspection of Iho small boy. Hut he Is not ungrateful for favors lu the shaioolsirllno boxes and that sort of thlng.and alter pitlunt-ly pitlunt-ly enduring the laus hu enjoys his lunch. Hltn's owner Is n youug man named Grim ley, who has taught him a ft r trick), none of them practically original. Hut Bam Is a bruio of such comprehensive intellect that there Is no occailou for ouch tuition In the matter mat-ter of tricks. Holsaciiistomcd to while away a few of his spare I ours ou the lot nt I.lghtecnlli and Guerrero streets, and at theeamutunaplckupn few nourishing nourish-ing articles lu the way of rubber shoes aud broken llowtr pots. Hut such n tlltt hecoinis 11 llltle monotonous, even tu a hybrid goat, so when Bom spied a lovely young gentleman wulMng across thelot Willi nlovely moss rose In blsbuttouholo he gently tnutlviited himself In thu I lace wheru his whlektrs ought to bo If he weru a respectable ,oiit. Then lie thought what n delightful Havor that mors agate would give to the rtbvo litter ho hnd ut swallowed whole, bo hu roso with superior agility, If but with llttlo grace, nnd tluiked the rose ns deftly ns the merry mountain maiden 1 liking I lackber.rlc. It waa In tho young man's heart to remonstrate remon-strate forcibly, but ho reconsidered ulter gsilug n second Into the mild looking e) rs of the noiidcscrlr.t nnlrual In frcnt of htm. Then hu lautd on, cuctully cuerlng his ri treat. Bum has celebrate this third tlrlhdayand is as ploj fill and frleky c nn old mal 1 V, llh a eurii'i Utile heart. |
