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RECREA TION. 



W. B. Bradley, John Askey, Douglas 

 Somerville, William Pollock and Richard 

 Spier, of Lonaconing, Md., claim to have 

 killed 400 squirrels while hunting along 

 Patterson's creek, West Virginia. 



These men are now included in Recrea- 

 tion's herd of game hogs. Let all decent 

 sportsmen shun them. 



E. J. Hill and F. Thompson, of Prophets- 

 town, 111., were caught shooting prairie 

 chickens before the opening of the legal 

 season and were fined $10 and costs, each. 

 The men had shot 2 chickens, which cost 

 them $20 each. Next year they won't com- 

 mence shooting until the law says they may 

 do so. 



I notice, page 298, of October Recrea- 

 tion, Mr. Leavenworth's defence in which 

 he gives us a kind of puzzle that I should 

 like to know how to unravel. He says: 

 " My wife and I did kill 297 squirrels last 

 season, 12 being the most bagged in one 

 day, and it took just 15 hunts to get them." 

 If this is fact how were 298 killed? Fifteen 

 multiplied by 12 makes 180, supposing 12 

 had been killed each dav. 



D. G. C. E., Orlando, Fla. 



I take every sportsmen's paper I know of. 

 but for realistic stories of gun and rod, and 

 for other intensely interesting narratives of 

 sport, of all kinds, I must say Recreation 

 takes the cake, bakery and all. It is the 

 duty of every true sportsman to assist you 

 in enlarging your circulation. 



John M. Durst, Austin, Tex. 



An Alliance, O., correspondent reports 

 quails plentiful in that vicinity, and that 

 rabbits are so numerous as to be a nuisance 

 to the farmers, who would gladly see them 

 exterminated. 



We have but little game here; only a 

 few red or pine squirrels, and a very few 

 fox and gray squirrels, some rabbits, and 

 quails. 



E. E. Ewing, Wabash, Ind. 



I go, every fall, to the Wapsipinicon, a 

 small stream near here, and bag a duck or 

 2 occasionally, but they are none too plen- 

 tiful. J. B. Quimby, Bremer, la. 



The dove season is on, in this vicinity, 

 and the birds are in large numbers. 



W. H. Young, Sacramento, Cal. 



I enjoy Recreation very much. The 

 black duck is about all we find here good 

 to shoot. Ruffed grouse are plentiful, but 

 wild. E. A. Keene, W. Poland, Me. 



Quails were never before so abundant, in 

 Nebraska, and prairie chickens are more 

 numerous than they have been for 3 years. 

 H. S. C, No. Platte, Neb. 



A Pocket Camera, listed at $1, for 2 sub- 

 scriptions to Recreation. Makes a pict- 

 ure iV2Xi^4 inches. Send for circular. 



Have just returned from the woods of 

 Maine, where I saw over 100 deer, 5 moose 

 and 2 caribou. 

 Dr. J. Seymour Emans, New York City. 



A party of 4 of us, and a guide, went out 

 late last fall, and in 3 days got 2 bear and 2 

 deer. A. J. Merrill, Jay, N. Y. 



Every person who subscribes for Rec- 

 reation, or renews his subscription, this 

 year, can get a copy of Mr. W. T. Horn- 

 aday's delightful book, " The Man Who 

 Became a Savage," for 50 cents extra. 

 The book sells in the stores at $1.50; but 

 you can get Recreation one year and the 

 book for $1.50. 



An Australian Mosquito-Proof Tent for 

 10, 15 or 25 subscriptions to Recreation — 

 according to size of tent. Send for circu- 

 ar. This tent is light, compact, water- 

 proof and insect-proof. 



" When a woman won't, she won't," they 



say, 

 Which means that she starts out that way. 

 But. later on, as you will find, 

 She's pretty sure to change her mind. 



— Chicago Record. 



If you have sent in a club of subscrip-. 

 tions to Recreation, and have gotten 

 your premium, and if it be satisfactory, 

 please tell all your friends about it and ad- 

 vise them to do likewise. 



Is there not a guide, a farmer, or some 

 one else who has done you a good turn, and 

 whom you would like to reward? Then 

 give him a yearly subscription to Recrea- 

 tion, as a Christmas present. 



Please send me the names and addresses 

 of all your friends who are sportsmen, in 

 order that I may send them sample copies 

 of Recreation. 



A Pocket Camera, listed at $1. for 2 sub- 

 scriptions to Recreation. Makes a pict- 

 ure 1^2x1^ inches. Send for circular. 



