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RECREA TION. 



A Successful Single Barrel. — The Daven- 

 port Fire Arms Company, of Norwich, Conn., 

 has lately put on the market a single barrel shot 

 gun of unusual excellence. It has a detachable 

 barrel and can be taken down as easily and 

 quickly as any high grade double gun. The same 

 quality of steel is used in the barrel as in the $60 

 guns made by other factories. It has a pistol 

 grip stock of tasty pattern, which is checkered ; 

 rebounding locks, top snap action, casehardened 

 frame, is choke bored, and is made in 12 and 16 

 gauge. 



The ejector is its most remarkable feature. 

 This works so rapidly and so strongly as to 

 throw the empty shell 3 to 4 feet from the breech 

 of the gun in an almost straight line. The popu- 

 larity of this gun is shown by the fact that one 

 of the largest jobbing houses in the west has 

 placed with the factory an open order to ship it 

 all the guns, of this pattern, that the works can 

 turn out, until further notice. 



An important item in your camp outfit is a 

 fountain pen. You will, of course, want to 

 make memoranda of what you see and do in 

 the woods, or on the waters, and it is much 

 better to make them in ink than in pencil. Then 

 they will keep till you get home. A good foun- 

 tain pen is always ready. The " Swan," made 

 by Mabie, Todd & Bard, 130 Fulton street, 

 New York, is good. Men who use the "Swan" 

 always wear a pleasant smile while at work. 



What every body says must be so, and every 

 body who has used gunoleum says it is an 

 absolute preventive of rust. Read the ten testi- 

 monials in the manufacturers advertisement, on 

 another page. If these do not convince you 

 write the company and get a free sample of the 

 oil. 



II. C. Squire's catalogue is a whole library of 

 sportsmen's literature. It used to sell at 50 

 cents a copy, which was about one-tenth its 

 value to any sportsman. Now, he gives it away. 

 Write for it. His address is 20 Cortlandt 

 street, New York. Mention Recreation. 



It is always a pleasure to trade where you can 

 get what you want. If you don't see what you 

 want at Hartley & Graham's, 315 Broadway, 

 New York, ask for it and they will be mighty 

 apt to dig it up. Write them for a catalogue. 



FOR SALE. 



634 Acres of land in the 



PECOS YALLEY, NEW MEXICO 



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$1,000, NET CASH. 



This is prairie land, adjoins the town site of Hager- 

 man, which is a station on the New Railway ; is under 

 irrigating ditch and the title is direct from the govern- 

 ment. It is as good as any of the land in that country, 

 for which the Company is asking $30 an acre. 



Address 



G. O. SHIELDS, 



2 1 6 William St., New York. 



POSSIBLE SMILES. 



AT THE YALE-HARVARD GAME. 



Maude — (To her brother's chum.) I know you 

 college boys are awfully wild and we were al- 

 most afraid to have brother Charlie come here ; 

 but there's one thing that comforts us, and that 

 is that he never goes into a saloon. 



Fred — No, Charlie don't go in ; he stays 

 outside and we go in and throw him out a hose. 



NOT TO BE FOOLED. 



Old Black Bass — Do you see that little frog 

 hanging there by a string ? 



Young Black Bass — Yes, mother. 



Old Black Bass— Well, don't bite at it 

 child ; that is merely a rubber frog and very un- 

 palatable. I have observed them before. This 

 one, I think, came from a Boston fishing tackle 

 store, and presumably there is a Bostonian hold- 

 ing the split bamboo which you can easily dis- 

 tinguish by an upward glance. Here comes a 

 nice fat shiner for you, unencumbered by any 

 patent angling gewgaws. There now, swim off 

 to play. — Boston Courier. 



DREAMS. 



Last night an awful dream I had, 

 'Twas a dream that made me shiver. 



I saw a cat fish for a shad, 

 And the shad roe up the river. 



— Ropersville ( Tenn.) Review. 



Baitley — There must be some monstrously big 

 fish in that river where you say you go fishing ? 



Rodley — What makes you think so ? 



Baitley — I understand that almost every one 

 who goes fishing there gets pulled in. — South 

 Boston News. 



First Trouter — Do you like trout ? 

 Second Trouter — I don't know ; never ate 

 any. Did you ? 



First Trouter — No. — Boston Courier. 



AFTER BIG FISH. 



Hobbs — I hear Hy Roller has gone fishing. 



Jobbs — Yes, and judging from the tackle he 

 took he must be fishing for whales. 



Hobbs — What was it? 



Jobbs — The North pole, the Virginia reel, the 

 equinoctial line and Sandy Hook. 



Jerolman's meerschaum pipe was badly dam- 

 aged in a railway collision, and now he calls it 

 his stove pipe. 



" Pa who's the biggest fool you know of ?" 



" The biggest fool I know of, my son, is the 

 man who puts on an overcoat when the first 

 pleasant days come, at the end of the heated 

 term." 



"Who's the next biggest? " 



"The next biggest is the man who'walks 

 around in the dead of winter without an over- 

 coat, just to show how tough he is." 



The brakeman slammed the door and called 

 out, " Next station Jamaica." 



" D' je make a stop there?" inquired the tall 

 thin passenger; and the brakeman fell over back- 

 ward, into the coal box." 



