“AROUND OUR CAMP-FIRE 
A TALK WITH THE READER 

““By George, that’s just what I’d like to do!” 
Does that sound familiar to you? Have you not 
often heard that identical exclamation from the lips 
of an acquaintance who had been reading RECREA- 
TION? Have you not sometimes used those or similar 
words yourself, on finishing a particularly interesting 
story of hunting, fishing or camping, such as appear 
in RECREATION from month to month? Of course 
you have! 
Perhaps you are so situated that you have been 
able to gratify your desire to “go and do likewise.” 
But the other fellow, is he still ardently wishing ? 
Suppose that you have tasted of the joys that have 
been forbidden him—wouldn’t you 
like to help him to his little round of 
pleasure? Of course you would, for 
the tie that binds together all sports- 
men for all the best there is in life is 
Generosity. 
There is a way. Be you one of the 
fortunate ones, or yourself a wisher 
for the seemingly unattainable, you 
should know about RECREATION’S 
subscription premiums. Let us tell 
you about the young sportsman 
whose ‘‘camp” is pictured on this 
page; it should prove an inspiration. 
James F. Griffin, of North Bay, N. 
Y., was unable to indulge himself in 
long hunting trips, or to join a sportsmen’s club; he 
was unable even to have what he desired in the way 
of equipment. But he was ambitious, and when he 
found he could earn a good gun, a fishing-rod, a 
canoe, anything he needed for the following of sports 
afield by taking subscriptions to RECREATION, he 
took off his coat, figuratively speaking, and pitched 
in. The result of his energy and enthusiasm was 
such that he is now the owner of a complete outfit, 
and so pleased is he that he has named his little 
hunting lodge “‘ Recreation.” 
Mr. Griffin is only one of hundreds whom RECREA- 
TION has helped to get a complete sporting equip- 
ment. Recently our circulation manager made a 
short tour through some of the Eastern States to 
better acquaint himself with the conditions with 
which our ‘‘premium solicitors” have to contend, 
and with a view to improving, if possible, this branch 
of his campaign. He came back wearing a rich 
walnut tan; there was a merry twinkle in his eye, 
and even his shoes squeaked good-naturedly as he 
came striding into his office. And though his desk 
was piled high with an accumulation of work that 
his assistants perforce had saved for him, he found 
time for an interview. ‘‘Say,” said he, rolling up his 
sleeves, and with an apprehensive glance at his 

James F. Griffin’s Camp 
calendar, ‘‘those fellows can teach one a few things! 
Why, everywhere I went I was all cocked and 
primed with encouragement, but they didn’t want 
that. ‘What’s going to be in next month’s maga- 
zine?’ That’s what they’d say before I'd get a 
chance with my cheer-up story. ‘What you got that’s 
new for about ten subscriptions? What rifle do you 
advise for deer?’ Why, say, I was standing leaning 
on a showcase just inside a sporting goods store in 
Bennington, Vt., waiting for the boss to come in, to 
have a talk with him and get a line on the local shoot 
ing and fishing fraternity, when a fellow came in and 
in less than a minute had engaged me in conversa- 
tion. And what do you think? 
Blamed if he didn’t start right in 
and buttonhole me to subscribe to 
RECREATION! It was funny, so I 
argued with him and abused the 
magazine every way I could. We had 
it hot and heavy, and, willyou believe 
it, that fellow made me dig up a dol- 
lar and a half and subscribe! Well, 
when he asked for my name and ad- 
dress, I had my little fun with him. 
He didn’t believe me till I wrote my 
name out for him, and, of course, he 
knew my signature. That was Dan 
Rifenburgh and I believe he is the 
best solicitor I ever met. Well, may- 
be I didn’t make him take me fishing! 
“‘Another fellow I met took me out in his pre- 
mium canoe, gave me his premium fishing-rod to 
fish with and made a picture of me with his pre- 
mium camera. 
“‘T had a good time, but I didn’t get rid of any of 
my encouragement; they only wanted to know what 
was going to be in the magazine. Some of them 
were quite young boys, some of them eighteen or 
twenty, and a few older. The boys go in for the 
smaller premiums, but nothing’s too good for the 
older fellows. I had to give one of them exclusive 
rights for three counties—he wants an automobile!” 
This merely to show what is accomplished by 
those who try. And so we will conclude with the sug- 
gestion that, if you neither care to nor need to solicit 
subscriptions to get your sporting equipment, in 
view of the very promising prospect for future num- 
bers of RECREATION, you will be doing a kindness by 
giving your subscription to some ambitious young 
friend—and you will be guilty of no “‘sin of omis- 
sion” against him if you will but ask your sportsmen 
friends and acquaintances to follow your example, 
If you would be a ‘‘premium-made” sportsman, 
write to us to-day for full instructions and our cata- 
logue of premiums. 
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