RECREATION. 



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The modern publisher took the modern 

 author into his private cell. 



"You have," he asked sternly, "investi- 

 gated the subject for this book of yours 

 with more than ordinary care?" 



"Oh, yes," replied the ' modern author. 

 "I have spent 3 days on it." 



"And you are arranging it in a light, 

 catching way?" 



"Yes. One word to the page, with wide 

 margins." 



"It will, of course, be dramatized. Who 

 wih do that?" 



"I have done it. I dictated the play part 

 while I was doing the book — by the mod- 

 ern alternating author's current." 



"Good ! Now will you sign this letter, 

 in which you say that while writing your 

 great work you subsisted entirely on this 

 health food. It will be included in your 

 royalties." 



The modern author paused. 



"Certainly," he replied, "but why this 

 particular food?" 



"Because they pay more than the others. 

 Now for the title." 



"Then I would better tell you the sub- 

 ject. It is " 



The modern publisher lifted his hand 

 appealingly. 



"Don't I" he cried. "How do you sup- 

 pose I can write an attractive, up-to-date 

 title if I know the subject?" 



He laid his hand kindly on the arm of 

 the other. 



"My young friend," he observed, "you 

 have yet much to learn,"— Life, 



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next season. 



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I am more than pleased with Recreation. 

 Especially I commend the way you roast the 

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 the real sport there is in angling and hunt- 

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 game and fish that abound in our forests 

 and streams, and all would be benefited. 

 There should be no other object on the part 

 of the hunter or angler when going out on a 

 trip than true sport and not to see how 

 much he can slaughter and then brag about 

 it. Such a course will soon put a stop to the 

 whole business for the want of something 

 to hunt and fish for. 



J. H. Trafford, Chenango Forks, N. Y. 



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