XXVI 



RECREATION. 



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TO any person sending me $i for a year's 

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THEY REFUSE TO IMPROVE. 



Whenever I return to civilization, after 

 an absence of some duration in the wilder- 

 ness, the first break I make is for the book 

 store to get Recreation, and where I'm 

 known, they generally have it laid aside 

 for me. No publication has a greater at- 

 traction for me or pleases me more. I am 

 a rifle and revolver crank and firmly be- 

 lieve in following the ethics of true sports- 

 manship in whatever branch of sport I en- 

 gage in. 



Here we frequently see large numbers 

 of men, women and boys on the streets, 

 loaded down with ducks, which they sell 

 at 5 cents each, or less than 2 cents Ameri- 

 can money. Surely the wild hog, indigen- 

 ous to this country, is entitled to more 

 consideration at the hands of sportsmen 

 than his human brother is. 



And now a word about the Marlin Co. 

 They make a good rifle in some respects, 

 but its extractor is decidedly faulty and 

 unreliable, after a little use, and no one 

 who hunts big game can afford to take 

 chances on a rifle's clogging at a critical 

 moment. I recently had an experience of 

 that kind, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 

 when I was charged by some wild cattle, 

 and while I escaped with no greater dam- 

 age than some torn clothing and a bruised 

 hip, I had such a close call it makes me 

 shiver to think of it. 



Why the Marlin people don't remed)' 

 this defect in their guns I can not compre- 

 hend, for certainly they have had their at- 

 tention called to it often enough. 

 % I have a friend in Kansas City who is 

 [one of the best and most skilful amateur 

 mechanics I have ever known. He is a 

 gun crank and so situated that he can de- 

 vote all the time he wishes to indulging 

 his hobby. His den is filled with ingenious 

 appliances for sporting purposes, all of his 

 own handiwork. 



While visiting him several months ago, 

 he took down his Marlin rifle and, taking 

 out the breech bolt, showed me a new ex- 

 tractor, simple and strong, made of one 

 piece, which he had fitted into the slotted 

 groove which formerly held the combina- 

 tion affair made at the factory. His extrac- 

 tor worked as smoothly and easily as could 

 be expected of one strong enough to grip 

 the head without slipping off when a. shell 

 happens to swell in the chamber. The Mar- 

 lins know this man personally, and they 

 take special pains in executing any order 

 he may place with them for anything in the 

 gun line; so he sent them the breech bolt, 

 with his extractor fitted in for inspection, 

 and generously offered them his idea, free, 

 if they wished to embody the improvement 

 in the construction of their rifles. But, no ; 

 they returned it and declined to make use 

 of it. 



What in the name of heaven is the cause 

 of such perverseness? To me it is inex- 

 plicable. 



^ Tehanmoc, Mexico City, Mex*; 



