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RECREA TION. 



On Friday morning last I mailed you an 

 express order for $15, together with a list 

 of 15 subscribers to Recreation. On 

 Monday morning I received a letter from 

 you enclosing receipt for same and Tues- 

 day noon I received my premium, an Ad- 

 lake Camera, by express from Chicago. 

 That is a record for promptness that would 

 be hard to equal. The camera is a beauty 

 and I owe you thanks, not only for your 

 promptness but for your liberality as well. 

 I shall do all I can to advance the interests 

 of Recreation in this vicinity. Recrea- 

 tion is the sportsman's friend and deserves 

 well at the hands of all true sportsmen. 

 W. H. Rowland, Dennison, O. 



The India Rubber Co., of Akron, O., 

 makes the Arrow Tread tire which is so de- 

 servedly popular among thousands of wheel- 

 men. It has many advantages over other 

 tires, which are freely set forth in a hand- 

 some and elaborately illustrated booklet 

 published by this company. I have not 

 room here to describe the tire in full, or even 

 to give all the good points concerning it, but 

 if you will send for a copy of the little book 

 you will be well repaid for your trouble. 

 Mention Recreation. 



I have received from the Expodak Co. 

 one of their exposure meters. 



I have not yet had time to thoroughly 

 test it but if it is as good as it looks it is 

 all right. The light value is found by 

 printing a piece of Solio in a certain man- 

 ner; then on the table being set the correct 

 exposure required in that light is given 

 against every stop; the whole operation 

 only taking a few seconds. The advertise- 

 ment of this exposure meter will be found 

 on another page. 



I am in receipt of a letter from an army 

 officer at Camp Cuba Libre which says 

 " the officers are all highly pleased with 

 the goods we bought of your friend D. T. 

 Abercrombie. Col. Hine and I would not 

 be without these even if the cost had been 

 much greater." These officers bought 

 aluminum mess kits, sleeping bags, mat- 

 tresses, etc. 



As an instance of the influence Recrea- 

 tion has here, I know of 2 rifles sold this 

 week solely on recommendations read in 

 the magazine. It has become the recog- 

 nized authority on all matters pertaining 

 to arms and ammunition, so far as this 

 community is concerned. 



H. E. Wadsworth, Lander, Wyo. 



The Acme wheel you sent me as a pre- 

 mium for 75 subscribers has arrived, and 

 I am well pleased with it. I find it as you 

 said, a high grade wheel in every respect. 



Thank you very sincerely for your kind- 

 ness. Maude L. Kelly, Orange, N. J. 



TOO MUCH LOPPING. 



Off to the right of the road I saw a man 

 planting corn. To his right and about 30 

 rods away was a fringe of willows, and as 

 I looked a puff of smoke shot out and the 

 report of a firearm reached my ears. Be- 

 fore I came opposite the man 3 shots had 

 been fired, and I saw 2 of the bullets kick 

 up the dust within a few feet of him. He 

 saw me, and shouldering his hoe came out 

 to the roadside fence and said "Hello!" 

 just as another shot was fired and the bul- 

 let struck a rail 10 feet away. 



"Come from Thomasville? " asked the 

 man as he looked me over. 



"■ Yes." 



" Any news down thar'? " 



" Nothing of interest." 



" Most everybody out plantin' corn, I 

 guess. Which way you goin'?" 



"Down to Parson City. Isn't there 

 some one over in the willows with a gun? " 



' Yes, Jim Fisher is over thar' with an 

 ole army revolver." 



" Well, he's doing some very careless 

 shooting," I said as another bullet struck 

 the fence in about the. same spot. 



" He's doing the best he kin, I guess,"' 

 replied the farmer as he turned his head. 



" But what's he shooting at? " 



" Me. He's been poppin' away fur the 

 last half-hour. Thar' he goes agin, but 

 thar' ain't no call to get skeered. If it 

 comforts him to pop at me let him pop." 



" But you ought to do something! " I 

 protested. 



" I'm doing sunthin'," he replied with a 

 quiet smile as he climbed the fence and- sat 

 on the top rail. " Yes, it's Jim Fisher, and 

 he thinks I'll come down thar' and ax him 

 what he's mad about. I shan't though. 

 He ain't doin' nobody any hurt." 



" But he might hit you by and by.'* 



" Wall, in a year or 2 mebbe. You see, 

 I know Jim, and I used to own the revolver 

 he's shootin' with. Jim is blind in the left 

 eye, lop-shouldered on the left side, and 

 the old pistol shoots to the left. When he 

 shoots, he sticks out his tongue, shuts his 

 right eye, lops over and if I don't sit still 

 fur half an hour he can't begin to hit me." 



" You take it pretty cool," I said as I 

 made ready to ride on. 



" Oh, yes, it's jest as well," he drawled; 

 "Jim's got a new box of catridges, and 

 arter he fires 'em off he'll come out and 

 want to shake hands and trade dogs. He's 

 been shootin' at me fur a month past, and 

 I can tell by the way he pulls the trigger 

 that he's gettin' discouraged and wants to 

 quit. No use gettin' flustered, stranger. 

 I'm a-loppin' to the right and Jim's a-lop- 

 pin' to the left, and the 2 of us couldn't git 

 up a shootin'-match if we was to try all 

 summer! " — The Baker Gun Quarterly. 



If you would live next to nature, read 

 Recreation. 



