DAN BEARD AND THE BOYS 



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are organizing a society for the preserva- 

 tion of game. This 1 am in favor of and 

 would like to hear from you how to organ- 

 ize a branch in Newfoundland so that we 

 could help to protect King Edward's game, 

 of whom 1 am glad to say I am a loyal sub- 

 ject. I am fourteen years old and my uncle 

 takes Recreation, which is better than ever. 

 With best wishes, 



Willis Bogg, 

 Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. 



"King Edward's game," as Willis Bogg 

 puts it, is as dear to our hearts as Uncle 

 Sam's, and we have written to Willis the in- 

 formation he requests. — Founder. 



NEW JERSEY. 

 Dear Founder : 



I wish to join your society, "The Sons of 



Daniel Boone," for which please enter my 



name. Hoping to get more members and 



subscribers for the society and the magazine, 



I remain yours, 



G. E. Dimock, Jr., Elizabeth, N. J. 



Your name is inscribed in the Boone book. 

 — Founder. 



NEW YORK. 

 Dear Founder : 



Four fine boys of Le Roy would like to 

 make a local branch and join the Sons of 

 Daniel Boone. If you will please send us 

 the badges and constitution we will soon 

 send in the name of our four. My father has 

 a flintlock musket and a Civil War rifle, but 

 they are fastened above the fireplace and 

 I probably can't have either. But we will get 

 a gun somehow. My brother and I can't 

 have a gun and we don't want one much, 

 because we shoot with the bow and arrow. I 

 made one bow that I like very much because 

 it will shoot hard and straight. I think we 

 will call our fort Fort Oatka, after the creek 

 .that flows through Le Roy. We have had an 

 Indian tribe called the Oatka Indians, but we 

 are getting tired of that and the Sons of 

 Daniel Boone has turned up at the right ^ 

 time. Yours truly, 



Paul O. Samson, Le Roy, N. Y. ' 



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The constitution and badges have been^ 

 sent to Paul. — Founder. 



O.K., I am sure. The question box, too, is 



a source of great enjoyment to me also. 



Your articles on our feathered friends, for 



instance, Nests, Nestings, and Nestlings, 



which appeared in your last issue, are simply 



grand, so real and life-like. Personally, I 



am fond of fishing, such as one finds in the 



Farmington, on whose banks our home is. 



Cordially yours, 



J. L. Cose, Simsbury, Conn. 



Now, Mr. Cose, start a fort at Simsbury 



and get in line with the other boys. — Editor. 



MISSOURI. 



Dear Founder : 



I am starting a club in St. Joseph of the 

 Sons of Daniel Boone. There are only four 

 members now, and that is enough to meet 

 and choose a name. Are the officers elected 

 or appointed by Daniel Boone; are there 

 any dues to pay? 



Eugene H. Broughton, St. Joseph, Mo. 



Four is enough for a start ; get together 

 and agree upon the officers among your- 

 selves. You should be entitled to the posi- 

 tion of Daniel Boone. A subscription to Rec- 

 reation for Audubon are the only dues for 

 headquarters ; the club regulates the dues to 

 its own fort if any are necessary. 



CONNECTICUT. 



Dear Founder : 



Having read Recreation since it changed 

 hands I want to say a word. 



First : Recreation is the best and most 

 attractive magazine of its sort that I know of. 



Second : All boys who have once read 

 Dan Beard's talks with the boys can hardly 

 wait for the next article to appear. 



To me your camp fire circle is an ideal 

 corner, and Mr. Ford's direct talk will be 



NEW YORK. 



Dear Founder: 



We wish to establish a Daniel Boone fort; 

 eleven eager boys want to join, and, if you 

 will send full instructions and badges, and. if 

 you have the patterns of the suits shown in 

 Recreation my mother will make them for 

 us. We have a camp on Owasco Lake ; it 

 contains fifteen beds. We are going up there 

 the 21 st of July and stay a month. We have 

 five boats, and we are going in our uniforms 

 to the camp. We have a fine speaker named 

 Francis Mee. We all have a gun, a hunting 

 knife, and two revolvers, and we have a fine 

 tally gun ; it is an old musket with a bayonet. 

 It belongs to my godfather. My father buys 

 Recreation, Outing, Forest and Stream and 

 other sporting magazines. There are ten of 

 us now to start the fort. The names are as 

 follows : 



Daniel Hamilton, D. B. ; Francis Mee, 

 D. C. ; Johnnie Youngs, K. C ; Louie Ber- 

 gain, Harold Zildersleve, John Sullivan, Wil- 

 liam Sullivan, Joseph Sullivan, Jos. Martin, 

 Ed. Hamilton, Jos Costicks. 



They are good strong and healthy boys. 

 We have some good ball players with tne 

 club ; the first six boys are the head ones, 

 and there will be more join every day, when 

 we get our badges and suits, and we will ap- 

 point more officers afterwards. 



Daniel Hamilton, Auburn, N. Y. 



The patterns, instructions and badges have 

 been forwarded. — Founder. 



