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RECREATION. 



A YOUNG SPORTSMAN. 



I have a little son who is an enthusi- 

 astic sportsman, and a first class rifle 

 and shot gun shot. He has a good 

 .22 repeating Winchester, Lyman sights, 

 with which he has done some ex- 

 ceptionally good field work. He is 14 

 and quite small and slight. He is also 

 using my 16 bore Greener. He shoots 



woodchucks, squirrels, snipe, ruffed 

 grouse, prairie chickens, gophers, curlew, 

 upland plover, and ducks in the early part 

 of the season. He is quite unconscious of 

 being anything out of the usual. He and 

 his little sister spend a great deal of time 

 in the woods during the summer vacation. 

 I send you a photograph of him. 



F. W. Hodson, Ottawa, Ont. 



THE SAVAGE BACHELOR. 



"I know something I won't tell," sang 

 the widow boarder's little girl, as little 

 girls have done ever since language was 

 invented. 



"Never mind, child," said the Savage 

 Bachelor, "you'll get over that habit when 

 you get older." — Indianapolis Press. 



ELFLEDA. 



EDITH Ii. EDWARDS. 



Elfleda is a blooded dog 

 To whom we point with pride; 



But then when our Elfleda points, 

 We wish we hadn't tried. 



Her sire, we're told, caught feathered game 



And hunted long and well. 

 Elfleda, too, hunts feathered game, 



But hunts it in the shell. 



Our Plymouth Rocks are common fowls, 



No match, we all agree, 

 For a hungry, hunting pointer 



Who has a pedigree. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY H. D. COCHRAN. 



A SMALL CATCH. 



A coroner's jury in Georgia delivered 

 the following original verdict on the sud- 

 den death of a merchant who had failed in 

 business: 



"We, the jury, find from the doctor's 

 statements that the deceased came to his 

 death from heart failure, superinduced by 

 business failure, which was caused by spec- 

 ulation failure, which was the result of 

 failure to see fur enough ahead." 



