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RECREATION, 



A GREAT BOOK. 



Editors and publishers seldom buy books and 

 pay cash for them. They like to pay for their 

 books in advertising. I have, however, bought 

 from Funk & Wagnals Company, New York, a 

 copy of the Standard Dictionary, and have given 

 them a check for it at regular trade price. Now 

 I am so well pleased with it that I want to com- 

 mend it to my friends. I cannot do this more 

 effectively than in the words of my friend W. J. 

 Hunsaker, editor of the Detroit Journal, who 

 says : 



"In no work of its kind has the idea of 

 grouping related words been carried so far or 

 so carefully systematized, and with such excel- 

 lent results in the way of clearness of presentation 

 and breadth of scope. . . . The general defi- 

 nitions in the Standard are noteworthy for their 

 clearness and brief comprehension — brief when 

 few words are sufficient, but by no means discard- 

 ing even encyclopedic treatment when the subject 

 demands it. 



" The Standard is a safe and impartial guide 

 in spelling. Every one of the 300,000 words re- 

 ceived the attentive consideration of that eminent 

 philologist. F. A. March, LL.D. and the de- 

 cisions seem to have been made to avoid equally 

 new departures and the conservatism which 

 clings to mistaken forms that obviously should be 

 corrected. . . . Taken altogether the Standard 

 Dictionary is without a peer. Nothing has been 

 left undone to make it a complete success. It is 

 a decided improvement over even such diction- 

 aries as Webster's and the Century. Admirably 

 suited for newspaper work, it has been adopted 

 as the authority in many offices, and we predict 

 that in a short time it will be adopted by all the 

 leading schools and colleges." 



ODDS AND ENDS. 



The Kankakee Shooting and Fishing Club 

 offers for sale its great game preserve of 1,200 

 acres, in Laport and Stark counties, Indiana. 

 The tract comprises three club houses, a farm 

 house, barn, boat houses, orchard, 60 acres of 

 good upland, and 100 acres of meadow. It has 

 a frontage of four miles on the Kankakee river, 

 and is an ideal site for a club or private preserve. 

 Address, U. Baird, 43 North Diamond street, 

 Allegheny, Pa. 



Washington, D. C. 

 Our party goes every fall up to Edwards 

 Ferry, Md., 35 miles from Washington. It is 

 a grand place to fish. Four of us took, in three 

 days, 108 bass, averaging two pounds apiece. 

 Edwards is easy to reach. Fare from Washing- 

 ton only $1.26. It is a wonder to me more 

 eastern sportsmen do not go there. 



Chas. Sully Wheeler. 



Augusta, Me. 

 I am much interested in hunting and fishing. 

 With a number of my schoolmates I have organ- 

 ized a sportsmen's club, called the " Knights of 

 the Rod and Gun." We are all working hard 

 for the advancement of the club. The average 

 age of the boys is 17 years. We meet often to 

 practice shooting glass .balls. 



Harry Boynton. 



Harrisville, N. Y. 

 Editor Recreation. 



Trout fishing is excellent this season at and in 

 the vicinity of Forest Home. Large catches 

 are being made almost daily. During the week 

 commencing May 12th, about 300 trout were 

 caught near there. One party of two caught 35 

 one day, averaging about one pound each. 

 Another party of three caught in one day 50, 

 weighing about f of a pound each. Now is the 

 time to catch trout. Humes Bros. 



Baker City, Ore. 

 Recreation for March is simply out of sight. 

 The boys are all talking about it. The news- 

 dealer here sold 15 copies this evening, almost as 

 soon as placed on sale. He could have sold 10 

 more, and has made his standing order for 25 a 

 month hereafter. M. W. Miner. 



We have every reason thus far to believe that 

 Recreation is covering an excellent field, re- 

 sulting in numerous inquiries, those from remote 

 points, such as California, Texas, Canada and the 

 Canadian provinces, being especially noticeable. 

 W. H. Davenport Fire Arms Co. 



Enclosed please find money order for three 

 subscriptions to Recreation, the champion 

 true hunter's magazine of to-day. I'd rather 

 miss my dinner, any time, than lose a copy of 

 Recreation. Capt. H. H. Cooper. 



"Have you read that article on how to tell a 

 bad egg?' "No, I haven't, but my advice 

 would be, if you have anything important to 

 tell a bad egg, why break it gently." 



American Review. 



I have received the copy of Recreation, and 

 think it the best little magazine I ever saw. I 

 enclose draft for $2.00, for which please send it 

 one year to me and to G. F. Benson. 



H. B. Jewell. 



North Platte, Neb. 

 Duck and goose shooting has been exception- 

 ally good here this spring, but the prospects for 

 prairie chickens are not encouraging. 



M. K. Barnum. 



Crystal River, Fla. 

 I landed a i66£ pound tarpon on a phantom 

 minnow. Have you heard of a better record 

 than this with artificial bait ? 



Wm. E. Carlin. 



Dallas, Tex. 

 Snipe were numerous here during May. A 

 party of us bagged over a hundred in one day's 

 shooting. W. F. Thatcher, M. D. 



Bethel, Me. 

 During the past season 77 bears were killed in 

 eight towns in the northern part of Oxford 

 county, Me. J. G. Rich. 



