FOREWORD 



O INCE time immemorial it has been the custom of publishers to 

 preface their books with some sort of a foreword. This first 

 edition of the Kink Book needs but little in the way of introduction. 

 A single glance at the text pages will be sufficient introduction for any 

 sportsman, and it is for those who indeed possess the sporting spirit of 

 fair play that this book is intended. To appropriate a phrase from the 

 Father of Angling, "It is too good for ought but honest men." 



The many who have followed the Kink Column from month to 

 month in OUTER'S BOOK will require no explanation of the purpose of 

 this book. Others, however, may be sufficiently interested over its 

 inception and development to make worth while a few words in that 

 direction. 



A distinguishing mark of the true sportsman is his constant readi- 

 ness to give freely to his brothers in sport the benefit of his knowledge 

 and experience. Naturally the spreading of information by word of 

 mouth is far too slow for the up-to-date American outdoorsman, and 

 matters of major importance soon find expression through the pages of 

 the various sportsman's magazines. But a vast number of small per- 

 sonal tricks and practices have heretofore obtained but little publicity 

 in this way. Individually they are scarcely important enough to serve 

 as the basis of a regulation magazine article, and their originators, 

 moreover, are often too modest or too unskilled with the pen to 

 attempt anything so ambitious. 



It was to encourage the offering of these smaller items, therefore, 

 that the Kink column was started in OUTER'S BOOK in March, 1915. 



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