RECREATION. 



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AUTUMN HILLS. 



I was up in the Catskills the other day and 

 saw them arrayed in their gorgeous fall suits. 

 As I feasted on the frosty air and the rich 

 brown of the forests, I said to myself, " If the 

 people who spent the summer up here, and 

 went back to the city when the first cool days 

 came only knew what they were going to 

 miss they would have stayed here till Christ- 

 mas so quick it would have made your head 

 swim. Inever care to go tc the country un- 

 til "the frost is on the punkin and the but- 

 ter's in the shock;" till the hills are bathed 

 in molten gold and the leaves come floating 

 down the creek. Then my back begins to 

 itch, my fingers get lame, and I have to get 

 out or break something. This is why I went 

 to the Catskills, and why I wanted to stay 

 there all winter. 



If you want to find out how a fellow feels 

 when he escapes from Sing Sing, just go over 

 to the West Shore office, get a ticket over that 

 road to Kingston and over the Ulster andDela- 

 ware to, say, Stamford. You will see more 

 sylvan loveliness in the six hours' ride than 

 you ever saw before in six days — especially 

 if you go this fall. If you stop at the Ham- 

 ilton House in Stamford, you will get bis- 

 cuits such as your mother used to bake; ap- 

 ple pies, such as your grandmother used to 

 feed you on when you were a big, hungry 

 barefooted boy; steak that will melt in your 

 mouth ; six kinds of cake and four kinds of 

 pie three times a day; a bed that will make 

 you dream of paradise — and all for $2 a day. 

 If you care to shoot you will find ruffed 

 grouse and rabbits fairly plentiful. But best 

 of all you will have a chance to climb the 

 mountains, to breathe the pure air, to build 

 up your impaired nervous and muscular or- 

 ganizations, and to bring home an appetite 

 that will strike terror to the heart of your 

 boarding house keeper. 



I have had great sport this summer catch- 

 ing bass from the lakes in this vicinity. I 

 have a fishing partner who is well up in his 

 business, and who can fish as early and as 

 late as I can. We think that if there are any 

 bass in a lake some of them are ours. The 

 State Fish Commission has commenced the 

 propagation of black bass for free distribu- 

 tion in public waters. I have already stocked 

 one little lake near the city and have made 

 requisitions for bass to stock three more next 

 spring. 



C. E. Foote, 



Kalamazoo, Mich. 



A correspondent in the Pecos Valley, 

 New Mexico, writes : "The farmers here 

 have no market for even the little stuff" they 

 can raise. It costs more to raise hogs than 

 they can get for them when ready to sell. 



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