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RECREA TION. 



WHAT THEY SAY OF IT. 



I just secured the current number of Recreation this 

 morning, and have done nothing but read it, the greater 

 part of the day. It is the most interesting sportsmen's 

 journal I ever saw. As I read some of the letters, from 

 places where there is an abundance of game, it almost makes 

 me want to pack my trunk and go ; for there is little game 

 around here. There is some fishing, but mostly bull heads 

 and perch. However, I will be content, as long as I can 

 get Recreation to read, to let the other fellows do the 

 work, and I will sit down and hear them tell about it. 



G. D. Case, Trumansburg, N. M. 



I would not be without Recreation, for it fills a long- 

 felt want. I shall show it to my friends, and with the full 

 assurance that no lover of the rod and gun will be without 

 it. I expect to draw on you, in the near future, for one of 

 your valuable prizes. 1 take 3 other journals, of a like 

 nature, but Recreation is the peer of them all. May long 

 life and posterity attend you. Teach the grand principles 

 of true sportsmanship, as you are doing, and your success 

 is assured. Wm. B. Currier, San Francisco, Calif. 



I am delighted with Recreation. The most artistic, 

 life-like illustrations of animal and bird life are contained 

 therein, and the scholarly, highly entertaining descriptions 

 of outdoor sports, the pictures of mountain and valley 

 scenery, cannot be excelled. Send me Recreation as 

 long as you keep its moral and intellectual tone up to its 

 present high standard. 



Chas. A. Walker, Carlinville, 111. 



Recreation becomes more enjoyable with each issue, 

 and I can only regret it does not appear oftener. Some one 

 suggests that you publish it semi-monthly, and charge $2.50 

 a year for it. Can you not seriously consider this ? I have 

 not the slightest doubt that every one of your present sub- 

 scribers would be only too glad to continue, at that rate. 

 Dr. C. P. Franklin, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Meeting occasionally most of the 60 odd subscribers I ob- 

 tained for you, I naturally ask " How do you like Recrea- 

 tion ? " The answers are always favorable, and most of 

 them you would be pleased to hear, couched as they are in 

 the kindest and most complimentary language. 



John Boyd, Toronto, Ont. 



I have been a reader of your best of sportsmen's maga- 

 zines for some time, and must put in a good word for it, as 

 everyone who reads it must. I have spent a number of 

 years in the West, among the best of game, but before I 

 left, 7 years ago, one could see it was doomed. 



Chief Eng. Graham, Roslyn, L. I. 



I have taken Recreation only 3 months, but consider it 

 the best magazine of its kind. The price is very low for 

 such a high-grade publication. I am pleased to note the 

 interest you take in protecting our game. It is, indeed, 

 something that should be looked after. 



Wm. J. Engh, Sharon Centre, N. Y. 



I am already paid up to October, 1899, and intend sub- 

 scribing until my boy begins to read. Then I shall turn 

 Recreation over to him, until he can, in turn, pass it over 

 to his posterity, and so on until he turns up his toes and 

 goes over the great divide. 



Dr. Jas. S. Kennedy, Chambersburg, Pa. 



I have been a sportsman all my life ; but never before 

 have I had the pleasure of perusing such a perfect encyclo- 

 paedia of information, pertaining to that which is upper- 

 most in the mind of every true sportsman, as is Recre- 

 ation. H. W. Mallory, New Orleans, La. 



I saw a copy of your July number, and was so well 

 pleased with it that I soon got up a club in in order to get 

 "The American Book of the Dog," a book I have been 

 wanting a long time. It is a most excellent work. 



F. W. Latz, Minneapolis, Minn. 



I have every number of Recreation, from the first one 

 issued, and shall have them bound. They will be a valuable 

 addition to my library, and I wish to preserve them for my 

 boys, who are inclined to be sportsmen. 



M. K. Barnum, No. Platte, Neb- 



The sample copy of Recreation reached me in due 

 time, and out of about 15 sample copies of different sporting 

 papers I sent for I selected yours as decidedly the best, in 

 my judgment. I inclose $1, for which send me Recrea- 

 tion one year. W. E. Sullivan, Glencoe, Ky. 



Allow me space in which to thank you, on behalf of all the 

 genuine sportsmen in this section, for furnishing so at- 

 tractive and valuable a journal as Recreation. May your 

 shadow ever be dense and your aim true. 



Arthur Munson. 



I am more and more pleased with each copy of Recrea- 

 tion. I am glad it is possible for some real sportsman to 

 produce such an excellent periodical at such a price. I 

 shall recommend it at all times. 



M. S. Miners, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



I like your magazine very much. Too much cannot be 

 said in praise of it. I always read it from cover to cover, 

 as soon as it comes. I wish it came every week, instead of 

 once a month. F. W. Talpey, Somerville, Mass. 



You deserve the immense success which crowns Recrea- 

 tion, for it is the best prayer-book ever printed, for the 

 man who has a true conception of nature's gifts to man- 

 kind. Ferdinand Beck, Virginia City, Nev. 



I have been a constant reader of Recreation for the 

 past 2 years. Your war against fish and game hogs makes 

 me your sincere friend. 



J. Cheever Goodwin, New York. 



I trust your shadow may widen until it bring refresh- 

 ment to the hunter "On Greenland's icy mountains, and 

 India's coral strand.'' 



W. H. Nelson, Forest Glen, Md. 



I have read Recreation 2 years, and it is the best maga- 

 zine I have ever taken. Every sportsman should always 

 take Recreation. E. E. Hiscox, La Crosse, Wis. 



My husband is a subscriber to your valuable magazine, 

 and I enjoy and await its coming as eagerly as he does. 

 Mrs. E. M.Burditt, No. Shrewsbury, Vt. 



Recreation is the best magazine printed, and is away 

 ahead of those of twice the price. 



F. J. Maynard, Jr., Flushing, L. I. 



You are right in not publishing articles commending 

 goods that are not advertised in Recreation. 



Victor Winfrey, Carbondale, 111. 



I think so much of Recreation I do not wish to miss a 

 single issue, and I praise it to all my friends. 



Dr. Paul F. Munde, 20 W. 45th St., N. Y. 



Recreation is the finest magazine I ever had the pleas- 

 ure of reading. I wish it came every week. 



F. B. Kelly, Ausable, Mich. 



Recreation makes bad weather not only endurable but 

 pleasant. Banks Jones, North Westchester, Conn. 



I enjoy reading your magazine more than any other 1 

 take. John Hermson, Rockland, Mass. 



Everyone who sees Recreation speaks well of it. 



H. W. Babcock, Silver Plume, Colo. 



I could not keep house without Recreation. 



George W. Knapp, Tecumseh, Mich. 



Recreation is the best magazine printed. 



J. M. Wolverton, Dundee, N. Y. 



Recreation i6 a peach. I cannot get along without it. 

 Harry G. Ward, Lansingburgh, N. Y. 



