AMATEUR PHOTO BY A, C. MELLETTE. 



JES' COME ON OUT, MISTAH 'POSSUM. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY A. C. MELLETTE. 



YES, 'NDEED, I'S GWINE EAT DAT 'POSSUM. 



This group of 3 pictures was awarded Twenty-fourth 

 Prize by the Judges in Recreation's Third Annual Photo 

 Competition. 



ALGY OBJECTS. 



Newport, R. I. 



Editor Recreation: I am a great angler, 

 but dampness gives me malaria, and riding 

 in a boat makes me quite ill. So, you can 

 imagine, with what interest I read of the 

 new sport " Bait-casting for fox terriers." 

 It is so attractive, you see, in not requiring 

 walking or wading, nor sitting cramped in 

 a boat; such things knock a fellow up so, 

 don't you know. 



-Wouldn't it be still nicer, if practised in- 

 doors? One can't always have shade on 

 the lawn, and it's awkward to hold a para- 

 sol, while you cast; and yet such a beastly 

 nuisance to get sun-burned. I shall try it 

 in our new ball-room, and put mittens on 

 the terriers, so they won't scratch the floor. 

 It will be quite awfully jolly. 



This glorious idea set me thinking, and 

 I have devised another new sport, adapted 

 to the most delicate and refined sportsman. 

 Take a few yards of linen thread, or silk, if 

 you prefer, and to one end tie a spool; drag 

 it across the carpet, and if you can get the 

 cat to chase it. There you are — trolling for 

 kittens, by Jove 



You could substitute a live mouse for the 

 spool, but the nasty thing might bite, don't 

 you see. If your readers will try this, and 

 report, I shall read their letters with great 

 pleasure. I'm so dreadfully interested in 

 real live sport. 



J. Algernon Smythe. 



" They say Russell Sage has started a 

 poultry farm, up the country." 



" So? Gone to raising sage hens, eh." 



