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RECREATION. 



$afte0peare 



Yes! the Shake- 

 speare Reel cer- 

 tainly is conta- 

 gtous. Last 

 week I met Judge 

 Parker and his 

 fishing mate, 

 Dick Thompson, 

 our Postmaster, 

 at the big pool 

 below the second 

 dam. As I step- 

 ped out of the 

 bushes, the 

 J udge exclaimed, 

 "N o w, D i c k, 

 that's all 'rot ' 

 — I'll bet you 

 anything you 

 like that 1 can 

 cast as far with 

 my old reel — 

 (I don't know 

 who made it and 

 don't car e ) as 

 you can with 

 that Milton, or Byron, or whatever you call that thing 

 of yours. ' As I came up, Thompson said: "Judge, I'll bet 

 that even Scott here can take my rod and outcast you ! '■' 

 That " even" was not altogether complimentary, but I 

 finally consented to try my hand. I walked out on the 

 breast of the dam, and, after two or three ''flukes," made 

 a clean cast that equally amazed his honor and myself. 

 What did he say? Not a blessed word. He quietly took 

 up his bait kettle and rod and started down stream. At 

 the Post Office next morning Dick smiled broadly as 

 he showed me a letter addressed in the Judge's hand to 



fc J|0afteepeare, 3t\, 



(gafomc^oo, (ttKcg., (U. £. @. 



THE AUTOMATIC-COMBINATION 



FISHING REEL. 



Winds the line automatically 

 by the action of a spring con- 

 trolled by the little finger of 

 the hand holding the rod. 



CHANGED INSTANTLY 



from Automatic 

 to Free-Buns ing. 



The 



Little 

 Finger 

 Does 

 It. 



NEVEB 

 ANY 



SLACK 

 LINE. 



YAWriAN & ERBE riFG. CO. 



Rochester, TX. Y. 

 Send for Catalogue. Dept. X* 



r 



for your fisherman friend would be 

 a BRISTOL Steel Fishing Rod. 

 Any time at all is the right time to 

 make a present of a fishing rod, 

 for fishermen "live over" their 

 trips ; and many a good fish has 



A Most 



Appropriate 



Present 



been caught while sitting by the 

 winter's fireside, with everything "snug" and the old 

 fly-book and tackle spread out on the rug. Write us 

 the style of fishing your friend loves best, and we will 

 help you to select the most suitable pattern from among 

 our 1 8 different styles. 



The Horton flanufacturing Co, 



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