Canadian Hunter.

Of Kentucky's great hunter bold             Old Daniel Boone oft tales are told,             Of wild beasts he had no fear,             But dangers loved that pioneer.             Canada has hunters many,             Yet perhaps there is not any             For skill and boldness can compare             With our own Daniel Hebner.             In youth he was both tall and strong,             And supple as a willow thong,             He never fled from savage bear,             Though bruin on hind legs would rear.             In hunting mink, or fox or coon,             He was a second Daniel Boone,             His rifle oft brought down the deer,             Which to his table brought good cheer.             But through his life his highest aim             Was to kill the savage game,             To track the wild cat to its lair             And see its eyes so fiercely glare.             But he oft longs for a cut ham,             Sweet as from bear near to Putnam,             For he waged his fiercest war             In big swamp of Dorchester.             Now in the winter Dan he rides             Warm 'mong his bear and coon skin hides,             He lets the younger men now snare             The beaver, muskrat and otter.