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drop on an average $1.25 a day in having what is 

 generally considered to be a good time, and in what 

 the boys call 'sowing their wild oats.' Try dropping 

 80 cents into your outing fund, and at the end of the 

 year you will have the comfortable sum of $292.00, 

 out of which you can get more solid fun and grand 

 sport in the Island of Newfoundland than ever you 

 dreamed of, and you will still have forty-five cents a 

 day for creature comforts^ which is found to be ample 

 for a goodly number of the outing fraternity, and is 

 as much and even more than thousands of good, in- 

 dustrious citizens earn." 



It is to be hoped that the reader will not be led to 

 think that the author is posing as a reformer, from 

 this prelude to the description of an outing which for 

 variety and satisfactory results eclipsed any among 

 the many in years gone by. At the same time, it does 

 none of us any harm to have our little shortcomings 

 alluded to, and especially where experience has proven 

 the correctness of the criticism; for there is scarcely 

 any doubt that many of those who peruse these pages 

 will recognize the picture in this introduction, and if 

 but few do as the author has long since done change 

 front the battle may last longer, but the outcome 

 will be more satisfactory, and certainly the outings 

 will be more numerous and beneficial. 



