The San Francisco call., 1906-07-29

hyena with Newfoundland dog. The
animal was very savage. and Dunn kept
it chained on the grounds.
One Sunday morning the freak broke
from its bond and cantered OF to the
rear Of the grounds where 1t stood at
bay in a corner Of the fence Nobody
would go and tackle the task OF bring
ing II back.
Dunn was standing on the front
piazza in patent leather shoes lavender
trousers, white waistcoat. frock coat
and silk hat. He looked the ground
over for a moment. doffed his tile.
stripped of his coat and waistcoat and
went afthr his menagerie barehanded-
They say IL was a great battle that
came of in the corner Of the fence. but
in the end Dunn dragged his screaming
and clawing monster by the scruf OF
the neck to the place where it had been
chained and tied it up in safety. His
lavender trousers were not much to
lGok at and his pleated linen shirt was
a tattered rag. with more or less blood
on it; but he had accomplished his pur-
pose.
NOT A GAMBLER.
II seems odd to those who knew Jere
Dunn, and knew him well. to see it
constantly asserted that he was a gam
bier playing for fabulous stakes. He
was not gambler. excepting that he
bet upon the races like any other horse
man.
At cards he was as feeble as an in
fant- He scarcely knew twospot from
four flush, and he couldn't learn. Old
companions of his. men who are card
players by profession. have often re-
lated with amusement how .vainly they
tried TO teach Dunn the values Of cards
and how to handle them.
In a poker game he was what the
sporting crowd call a soft mark In
I
penny game.
Pretty much all that has been said
and written of Dunn has treated of his
few desperate adventures, with the re-
suit that the impression has gone our
that he was a brawler and a bully. with
his hand perpetually clasping the butt
of a death-dealing revolver. This Is
by no means a fair picture of the man.
Excepting when he was aroused by
what he deemed a gross injustice he
bore no indications of desire for war.
In truth. he would endure in patient
silence more taunt and affrent than
men whose careers have been entirely
of peace. Upon more than one occa-
sion a man fired up with few draughtS
of liquor abused him, wanted to
thrash him and sought to arouse his
/ ire. Persons of this description were
always a source of amusement to
Dunn, who could have thrashed a
roomful of them, and yet knowing his
strength, held il in check
In his home he was a host liberal to
lavishness. Nothing was too good for
his guest He carved his huge roast
Of beef in slices half an inch thick and
he conducted all the operations of hos
pitality upon the same scale.
HIS LAST DIVERSION.
And what do you suppose was the
sole diversion of this man in the final
stages of the malady that took him
of-this man of whom they write al
most solely as a fighter and a SLAYER
of men? Mrs. Dunn. who was his
only attendant. frequently noticed that
as the afternoon drew to a close Dunn
l would say:
I'm glad the sun is setting. Now
we'll hear the birds"
/ So when Dunn's birthday was ap-
preaching Mrs Dunn bought for him
wee mite OF a canary with black wings
and hung it in the window by his bed
side where he could see ii. For day
or two the bird was silent in its cage.
Then 1t began to sing with rare. sweet
melody, and Dunn lay there and
watched Ii and listened with the
/ ca ger attention of an invalid child
The first hallucination that came to
him when the crisis of his agony had
passed and he was entering the portals
of coma was the thought that a black
cat was trying to destroy his bird He
made a savage kick at IL, and when he
was told that the animal had fled he
dropped off to sleep contenteds