AROUND OUR CAMP- FIRE 
A LESSON IN 
COMPARISON 

considering that it has cost you fifteen 
cents, just try to figure out how you 
can get as much good reading matter—that 
is of particular interest to you and that you will 
read—for double the amount. Youcan’t do it! 
@| RECREATION profits by comparison with 
any combination of its contemporaries costing 
twice as much. We call your attention to this, 
not to belittle the efforts of the other periodicals 
of the class, but in order that you may appreciate 
the earnest labor that is expended upon every 
number of RECREATION that comes to you. We 
want you to know that it costs something more 
than money to turn out a magazine that can 
justly claim to be the best there is. 
q It so happens that the journalist who is also a 
real, “dead game” sportsman is a rare bird— 
the average magazine contributor who knows 
how to write a good story or article doesn’t 
know the difference between a shotgun and 
a rifle, or between a fly-rod and one made for 
bait-casting.. And, on the other hand, the time 
Coa. this number of RECREATION and, 

BEVERLEY TOWLES 
Who painted the cover design for the present number of 
RECREATION, and also for the October number 
of the men of other vocations who go to the 
wilderness for their recreation is usually fully 
occupied when they are at home. They play 
hard when they are away in the woods, and 
work hard when they return to business, pound- 
ing away with renewed energy, intent on getting 
their affairs in shape so they can go away 
again. To one of these men the writing of a 
special article is a bigger task than it would 
be to a trained journalist, which is only natural, 
and so, everything considered, it takes, as we 
have said, something more than money to get 
the especially good features that make ReEc- 
REATION SO much better than its competitors. 
A case in point was the article ‘‘Hunting the 
Red Deer,’”? by Wm. Arthur Babson, which 
appearsinthis number. Mr. Babson is one of the 
busiest young lawyers in Greater New York, and 
although we first asked him to write the article 
almost a year ago, his legal duties interfered and 
it was not until the day, late in August, that he 
sailed for Newfoundland, where he was going 
to hunt caribou and fish for salmon, that he 
was able to deliver the manuscript—and it had 
necessitated repeated reminders on our part and 
the sitting up all through the night before the 
day of his departure on his. Had we made it a 
cold business proposition we never would 
have got the manuscript. And we think you 
will agree that the article is just about the best 
thing on the white-tailed deer you ever read. 
@ We are constantly up to something of this 
sort, and we could tell a good story of how we 
got Ernest Russell to write his remarkable 
series of articles about ‘‘The Sons of the Set- 
tlers,’’ but we are not going to telleverything we 
know; not just yet. We will say, however, that 
Mr. Russell’s connection with the busiest bank 
in his home city occupies him so that to write 
these important articles for RECREATION he 
had to forego his vacation, and when you read 
the following extract from one of his letters, 
written when he was at work on the series and 
should rightfully have been enjoying a vacation, 
you will know how much this meant to him 
We quote: 
I hang on like an experienced sprinter 
‘set’? upon the mark, waiting for the gun. 
When the call comes, I'm “off” to the wilder- 
ness. I have done it for fourteen years. 
