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RECREA TION. 



WHAT THEY SAY OF RECREA- 

 TION. 



The growth of your circulation during the past year is 

 almost incredible. No undertaking of this kind has ever 

 before succeeded permanently. Many so-called sports- 

 men's periodicals contain much that does not pertain to 

 real sport, but more properly belongs in police papers. 

 Such are unfit for the young to see. On the other hand, 

 Recreation is clean throughout ; hence its popularity. 

 B. Chew, Upsala, Orange Co., Fla. 



I think every subscriber should be a missionary, for Rec- 

 reation greatly excels any other sportsmen's publication. 

 Instead of offering premiums you should receive them. To 

 take the initiative, if you will tell me the size of gloves you 

 wear I will send you a pair as a starter toward the rebate 

 premium system. Continue to roast the game hogs and I 

 will try to send you some new subscriptions. 



A. V. Quackenbush, Gloversville, N. Y. 



Your refreshing little magazine brings new pleasure with 

 it every month. The spirit of the woods and streams, the 

 far-stretching prairie and the breeze-rippled sea, which per- 

 vades each number, infuses new life into tired brain and 

 muscle. Each month awakens a fond memory of some 

 past outing or arouses a lively anticipation of one to come. 



F. H. Jones, Norwalk, O. 



I would rather forget my dinner than I would forget to 

 obtain Recreation as soon as it comes out. I have been 

 buying of our newsdealer here for several months, but have 

 to be on hand as soon as copies arrive or be placed in the 

 same predicament as Mother Hubbard's dog, " The cup- 

 board was bare, and so the poor dog had none." 



F. J. Huntley, Oneida, N. Y. 



If every sportsman felt toward Recreation as I do you 

 could not get them all on your subscription book. It needs 

 no praise ; that is too common. It is simply "out of sight," 

 but not out of sight, for Recreation takes the most promi- 

 nent place in the house. May success crown your good 

 work. A. A. Beckwith, St. Francis, Minn. 



My husband is one of the brotherhood of Recreation 

 subscribers. The magazine is addressed to the house but 

 the postman always delivered it at the store. Then I had 

 a talk with that postman and now I enjoy Recreation in 

 peace, till Mr. S. comes home. 



Mrs. A. J. Slonaker, Pottstown, Pa. 



Recreation has awakened in me a desire to note more 

 carefully the advance of field and forest sports. It is won- 

 derful what an amount of observation you crowd into your 

 magazine and at the same time make all of the matter 

 interesting. A. F. M. Plummer, Des Moines, la. 



You have made many improvements in Recreation 

 during the past year and I wish every sportsman, good and 

 bad, could read it. There would be less use for game 

 wardens then and sportsmen would be better for the read- 

 ing. A. E. Simonson, Dixon, 111. 



Recreation is the best publication of its kind I ever saw. 



I find it so interesting that I read it entirely through, even 



to the largest share of the advertisements. It should find a 



place in the home of every sportsman and every other man. 



• V. C. Harris, Ottawa, 111. 



Please find enclosed Money Order for $i, for which send 

 me Recreation for another year. You are publishing too 

 good a book to give up, so you may count me a regular 

 subscriber as long as I can find the money. 



Guy Seeds, Salem, O. 



Recreation affords me the keenest possible pleasure, its 

 pages teeming with everything that comes nearest a true 

 sportsman's heart. Those whose subscriptions I have sent 

 you are more than pleased with it. 



A. J. Durand, Moorestown, N. J. 



Recreation is far ahead of all other publications of the 

 kind. I can hardly wait for it to come each month. I like 

 the pictures as well as I do the reading, and that is saying 

 a great deal. Success to you. 



Ewing Aden, Paris, Tenn. 



Recreation is the most interesting ana entertaining 

 magazine I take, and I read several. Success to you in all 

 you undertake. You have succeeded in getting out the best 

 sportsmen's magazine published. 



W. W. Leggett, Leggett, Miss. 



I should think a firm, dealing in sporting goods, that 

 would refuse to place an ad in Recreation was deaf and 

 dumb to its own interests, and not fit for any honest man to 

 deal with. F. J. Huntley, Oneida, N. Y. 



Recreation holds a warm place in my heart. With it 

 I can pass away a restless afternoon more quickly, and with 

 more real pleasure than with any book or magazine I ever 

 saw. Fred L. Taft, So. Framingham, Mass. 



Recreation is by far the best magazine of its kind pub- 

 lished and if your efforts meet with the success they de- 

 serve its subscription list will soon reach the 100,000 mark. 

 C. F. Franklin, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Find enclosed P. O. money order for $1, for which please 

 renew my subscription to Recreation. I can't do without 

 it. It is far ahead of any other publication of its kind. 



C. C. Beck, Paris, Texas. 



I take 5 other sportsmen's periodicals, and would not 

 give up Recreation for the whole 5. I hope you will re- 

 publish Vols. I. and II. and I will take copies of them. 

 V. A. Biggs, Patchogue, L. I., N. Y. 



I have been a subscriber to Recreation for 2 years, and 

 do not know what I should do without it. I wish it would 

 come out twice a week instead of once a month. 



C. B. I., San Antonio, Texas. 



Recreation is up to date and growing. This section 

 is now fairly well covered and no kiokers, which is more 

 than other magazines can say in this place. 



A. M. Hinkley, No. Middleboro, Mass. 



Have not yet received my June Recreation, and you 

 know how I feel, I suppose. Just like the kid when they 

 passed the pie and left him out. 



G. A. Higinbotham, Kansas City, Mo. 



Recreation is the finest sportsmen's and all round 

 magazine I ever took. I can hardly wait till the month 

 is up for a new copy to come. 



A. L. Drakes, Denver, Col. 



You are publishing the best sportmen's journal I have ever 

 seen and at a price that ought to put it in the hands of 

 every sportsman in America. 



S. R. Cates, M.D., Abilene, Tex. 



Enclosed please find money order for your Recreation 

 another year. We always look for it eagerly, and think it 

 the best magazine in its line. 



C. L. Goodwin, Sterling, Col. 



Recreation is the best periodical I ever read in regard to 

 hunting, fishing, and other out -door sports. Shall take it 

 as long as I have a dollar. 



G. W. Cahoon, Swampscott, Mass. 



I wouldn't care if you raised the subscription price of 

 Recreation from a dollar to $2, as your magazine is better 

 than many others at $5. 



F. F. Kanert, Grand Island, Neb. 



The premiums you give, the honest way in which you 

 treat all, and the value of Recreation itself ought to win 

 the assistance of every reader. E. E. Wiles, Lima. O. 



I have been taking Recreation for a year and like it the 

 best of any sportsmen's periodical. Could not get along 

 without it. F. M. Gibson, Kirkwood, 111. 



Everyone who is interested in hunting or fishing should 

 have Recreation. E. H. Beardlee, Thomaston, Conn. 



Recreation is the only true sportsmen's magazine. Give 

 it to the game hogs. Wm. J. Morgan, Elyria, O. 



