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RECREA TION. 



OLD IZAAK, JR. 



Amateur Photo by Frank E. Foster. 



Stone axe-head used by early Indians. 



Charles Scribner's Sons will also make a 

 large exhibit of beautifully tinted plates of 

 sporting scenes. Also their collection of game 

 fishes of America, and their sporting publica- 

 tions. Another large collection will consist of 

 60 oil paintings of game fishes of this country, of 

 high artistic merit, loaned by the artist. Other 

 loans of a more or less important nature are also 

 coming in from time to time, which will serve 

 to make the display very attractive. 



Frank W. Sanger Manager. 



RECREATION. 



To live without recreation, 



Is to die an unnatural death. 

 Oh! for the glorious sensation 



Of a whiff from the daisies' breath. 

 Give me love, life and vigor. 



Give me the wild inspiration 

 That comes with the rod and the trigger, 



And give me withal Recreation. 



T. W. C, "The Poet- Scout.' 



Ottawa, Canada. 



A peculiar sight can be seen almost nightly by 

 those who have occasion to be walking one of 

 our principal streets in the heart of the city after 

 midnight. A cat and a rabbit have contracted 

 a friendship, and during the stillness of night 

 they promenade Metcalfe street unmolested. 



N. H. II. Lett. 



Iowa Falls, la. 

 Ed. Recreation. 



I am an amateur photographer, and would 

 like to see that department made more extensive 

 in your paper, for I am sure that sportsmen 

 generally are coming to prize the camera more 



and more each year and it surely forms a pleasant 

 companion when out on a jaunt, to retain snaps 

 of familiar scenes with which to recall such ex- 

 peditions in future. I see you ask that samples 

 of photos be submitted. I therefor enclose an 

 unmounted print which was taken specially for 

 Recreation. It is in keeping with the scope of 

 the magazine, I think, and shows a young three- 

 year-old disciple of Isaak Walton who has already 

 learned of Simple Simon's fishing expedition, 

 with his mother's water-pail. 



Frank E. Fostek. 



THE SPORTSMEN'S EXPOSITION. 



The official catalogue is now being printed 

 and it will present to the manufacturer and ex- 

 hibitor a valuable means by which their special- 

 ties may be placed before the visitors and buyers. 

 It will be a unique affair, entirely new in de- 

 sign and execution. A preliminary edition of 

 10.000 will be printed, and other editions, if re- 

 quired, are provided for. It is not yet time to 

 fully describe the special features of the many 

 exhibits of the various firms, but several of them 

 are so novel and will be such a feature of the 

 Exposition, that a brief outline of the more im- 

 portant ones my prove both interesting and 

 profitable. One of the exhibits will be a log 

 cabin 30 feet long by 13 feet wide. This cabin 

 will represent a western camp. The exterior 

 will represent logs. One long side of the cabin 

 next the aisle will be cut away and left open, 

 which will enable all who approach it to see all 

 the interior. This cabin will be decorated with 

 specimens of mounted game and the paraphernalia 

 found in the camp of a western hunter. Everv 

 thing will be thoroughly appropriate, and the 

 camp will have as resident hosts, 14 famous 

 trappers and guides. These guides will be 

 from every part of the United States where game 



