

AROUND OUR CAMP-FIRE 



/ leave this rule for others when I'm dead, 

 Be always sure you're right — then go ahead. 



—DAVID CROCKETT. 



OPPORTUNITY 



You all know those clever but somewhat 

 " chestnutty " verses on opportunity. We are 

 told that opportunity knocks once at every 

 man's door. 



Fudge ! 



Opportunity knocks at every man's door 

 every morning, and gets there before the 

 milk. There is never a day that opportunity 

 does not knock at our doors, but many of us 

 are too deaf to hear. Those whose senses 

 are more acute become either great merchants, 

 or great insurance men, or sometimes even 

 police captains, which we know by the daily 

 papers is the greatest graft of all. But what 

 I was about to observe — when I started 

 moralizing — was, that opportunity knocked 

 at your door last month when Recreation 

 asked you for some good fishing stories. 

 Some of you responded, and now I am going 

 to ask the other fellows to get busy. We 

 have got a nice, long fishing season ahead 

 of us. I have laid in a good stock of hooks 

 and floats, and I know where some fine, fat 

 garden worms are hibernating, so I antici- 

 pate a lot of pleasure between April i and 

 the time the beach birds come along and win 

 over my affections. I hope you other fel- 

 lows will also have a good time, and that 

 you will find the fish not over-coy, of goodly 

 proportions, and that the farmer won't 

 chase you off with a bulldog or a pitchfork, 

 as he does me, sometimes — though I have 

 little to fear, as I am fleet of foot. 



WHAT WE LACK 



Some of our friends tell us that we do not 

 lack anything, that the magazine is just as 



good as it can be. Whereat we blush and 

 say nothing. Yet we feel that we lack a few 

 thousand readers, as we want to reach the 

 100,000 mark during 1906. Won't you help 

 us obtain the object of our ambition ? You 

 like Recreation. Would not you like it 



RECREATION'S 

 PLA TFORM 



An uncompromising fight for the 

 protection, preservation and propagation 

 of all game; placing a sane limit on 

 the bag that can be taken in a day or 

 season; the prevention of the shipment 

 or transportation of game, except in 

 limited quantities, and then only when 

 accompanied by the party who failed 

 it; the prohibition of the sale of game. 

 These are "Recreation's" slogans now 

 and forever. 



better if it were twice as thick ? Well, it can 

 be made so if each reader will consider it a 

 point of honor during the coming year to 

 introduce at least one subscriber. We 

 shall then have many more than 100,000. 



REMEMBER THE PRICE 



No more marked-down, bargain -counter 

 sales. Each issue marked in plain figures — 

 $1.50 a year, or 15 cents a copy. A little 

 figuring will show you that by subscribing 

 by the year you save 30 cents, and that will 

 buy three ice-cream sodas, or other equally 

 useful and ornamental articles. 



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