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RECREATION 



POSSIBLE SMILES. 



WHAT THEY SAY OF IT. 



Outsider — Mr. Surplice, why is it that you 

 have service before daylight ? 



Mr. Surplice — Oh, we have to do that, not 

 to interfere with the bicyclers. 



And everywhere that Mary went 

 That lamb was at her heel ; 



It couldn't do it now, you know — 

 For Mary rides a wheel. 



— Courier- Journal. 



Maud — Oh, Aunt Tabitha, I've had a glo- 

 rious time — I've been to a bicycle tea. 



Aunt Tabitha — Bicycle tea? Well, for 

 pity's sake — was the stuff fit to drink? 



— Courier Journal. 



He — Do you believe that a woman can 

 look modest in bloomers? 



She — Well, that depends largely on what 

 kind of a man is looking at her. 



— Exchange. 



Said the pilot to the cycler: 

 " Let us clasp a friendly hand ; 



I'm a wheelman on the water — 

 You're a wheelman on the land." 



Now the lordly " gobble, gobble " 

 Of the proud Thanksgiving bird, 



In a pleasing wobble, wobble, 

 Through the pumpkin vines is heard. 



— Detroit Free Press. 



A professor in the medical department of Colum- 

 bia College asked one of the more advanced students: 

 " What is the name of the teeth that a human being 

 gets last ■?" 



" False teeth, of course." — Los Angeles Express. 



Chollie — Chappie, why don't "you come out in the 

 country? Don't you get weawy of widin' 'woun' in 

 the same old park evwy evenin'? 



Chappie— Naw; y' see I make a vawiety — I take a 

 different bicycle evwy time. 



Miss Seaside (haughtily) — I beg your pardon, sir ; 

 you have the advantage of me. 



Mr. Lawn Tennis (jauntily) — I should say I had. 

 I am the fellow you jilted at Long Branch last sum- 

 mer. One yard, you say ? 



He — Sweetheart, you're a brick; 

 Sweet Sixteen — No, dear; only clay, 

 pressed yet. 



I haven't been 



Of all sad words that e'er were writ 



The saddest are these: " Will you please remit ?' 



It is belter to give than to receive, but he 

 that giveth his friend Recreation for a 

 year maketh both the giver and the recipi- 

 ent feel mighty comforiable. Selah. 



A friend has just handed me a copy of 

 Recreation, and I am so delighted with it 

 that I must have it regularly hereafter. Let 

 my subscription begin with the August num- 

 ber. Robt. F. Kern, Urichsville, O. 



Inclosed find $1, for which please send me Recre- 

 ation, beginning with the August number. I have 

 all the other numbers, and hope to have it as long as 

 I can read. It is the best and qleanest paper I ever 

 bought. My wife and children admire it as much as 

 I do. 



I leave to-night for a ten-day trip on the Gunnison 

 River, for trout. 



Dr. Solomon Bock, Denver. 



Inclosed please find 75 cents for binder. I now have 

 my Recreation from October, i8g4, to October, 1895, 

 bound. If I ever get so I cannot go to the woods and 

 mountains, for escape from the toils of life, I can read 

 these magazines ana live in the fond remembrance of 

 former days. 



[Hon.] C. H. Wood, 



Moss Point, Miss. 



Inclosed find New York draft for $3 for my renewal 

 and Mr. Stedman's; also, one copy " The Battle of 

 the Big Hole," to be sent Mr. Stedman. This will 

 complete his library of your books, and he says, "Tell 

 Shields he must bca little off if he thinks I would do 

 without Recreation. Can't get along without it." 

 Louis Groneweg, Dayton, Ohio. 



I am pleased to see Recreation is having the suc- 

 cess it deserves. I have inquired at many places 

 where I haye been this summer as to the demand for 

 it, and have been told, without exception, that it is 

 especially good for so young a publication, and that 

 it is rapidly increasing. 



J. McB. Stembel, Capt., U. S. A. 



I have been taking Recreation since the first 

 number was issued, and must say I have never seen 

 a magazine that could compare with it. Its only 

 fault is that it is not published often enough. I would 

 as soon chop up my fishing rod as do without Recre- 

 ation. Ben Collins, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Recreation is the best magazine I have seen on 

 sports. Am taking one now, for $2.00 a year, which is 

 not half so good, either in reading matter or illustra- 

 tions. Shall commend Recreation highly to all 

 my friends Fred M. Adams, Elgin, 111. 



No other periodical fills the wants of sportsmen as 

 Recreation does. Its stories are the genuine camp- 

 fire articles. I would not be without it for double the 

 price. 



Austin T. Schantz, Morton Park, 111. 



Recreation is the best thing of its kind published. 

 It far excels some other magazines which charge 

 more than double its subscription price. 



E. A. Brininstool, Los Angeles, Cal. 



Recreation is the best magazine of its kind in the 

 world. 



Robert F. Hetherington, Dallas, Tex. 



Perkins — Tots is a devoted cyclist, isn't 

 he? 



Simpkins — Devoted? He just lives on 

 his wheel — he has a man come round once 

 a week and teach him how to walk. 



