to practice shooting at targets and thus fit themselves 

 for their vacation trips in the woods, and also to 

 develop that manly self control and calm resource- 

 fulness w^hich were the marked characteristics of 

 their forbears, and which have done so much 

 to make the American people great and their 

 country one that is respected by every nation in 

 the world. 



Let each group of boys organize a club, select 

 a president, treasurer, secretary and a corresponding 

 secretary, the latter to attend to the correspondence 

 with other Stevens Rifle clubs. 



The J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company will 

 gladly do all in its power to encourage and help the 

 organizations in their work of perfecting themselves 

 in the proper care and use of firearms. 



When Mr. I. H. Page of the J. Stevens Arms & 

 Tool Company suggested to the editor that he should 

 get up this book, the latter had so much work on hand 

 that he was in despair until he secured the talented 

 young artist and arctic explorer, Mr. Bellmore H. 

 Browne to help him in the task, or rather the work of 

 love, and he could not have found a more agreeable 

 gentleman, a more accomplished real wilderness 

 hunter, or a more practical outdoor man for the work. 

 The reader is indebted to Mr. Browne for the 



