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With the approach of a new year it is not necessary to announce any change in our 

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 approved by prosperity. It will be just as entertaining, just as instructive, just as frank and 

 outspoken, and just as helpful. 



We are sometimes asked to explain the reason of the Forest and Stream's constantly 

 widening influence and prosperity. Well, there is no 



Trade-Secret 



aboiit it, and we do not mind tellirg you. It is this: We have not expended our energies in 

 preposterous spread-eagle proclamations of tremendous attractions in the dim and distant 

 future, but have pinned our faith to present performance, each week, and lifty-two weeks 

 in the year. This in the kind of jouinalism that is bound to succeed. Nothing very occult 

 about it, you see. 



Another element of strength is the jealousy with which we have maintained the inher- 

 ent dignity and entire respectability of the pastimes discussed in these pages, and the 

 extreme care we have taken to keep the tone of the columns such as renders the paper fit 

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 value, that they do not think it necessary to make 



A Weekly Scrutiny 



of the contents of the Forest and Stream before venturing to lay it on the family table, 

 We determined, years ago, that a clean paper must win its way among sportsmen {not 

 "sporting men"). The fact that it has done so is now cited, not that we may boast of our 

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 which this joiirnal is devoted. 



In other words, the reason why the 'Forest and Stream" is liked 

 by sportsmen is that the »*Forest and Stream" in the kin<I ot paper 

 that sportsmen like. 



This, as we have said before, is complimentary all around. A third element of tlie paper's 

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 it because they have something to say. You have lieard the story of the German professor 

 who was assigned to prepare a thesis on the elephant. Now, he had never seen an elephant, 

 so he evolved one out of his inner consciousness. Though we never read his essay, we have 

 not the slightest doubt it was a very dry one. But if the German professor had ever come 

 across 



A Real Live Elephant 



in an African jungle, he could have written a thesis on the beast that would have haid some 

 animation in it. That is just the secret of the interest of the Forest and Stream's contribu- 

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 Nothing diy in their notes and sketches and letters. They put it on paper just as entertain- 

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 comparing notes of the day's shoot. These stories and sketches come to us from sportsmen 

 who represent evei-y ijhase of life— all the professions and trades and occupations, from 

 which busy men now and then turn aside for a bit of fun by the stream or in the stubble. 



Of course the great bulk of matter appearing in this paper has related to the game and 

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 interested in. And what a variety there has been ! Squirrel shooting in the woods back of 

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Give Cuvier a Bone. 



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 struct from its pages the animals and birds and fishes of this country (and he'll find in it a 

 vast deal of curious and instructive information about the "true sportsman," too). , 



So, you see, the Forest and Stream is a journal of recreation. We do not mean alone 

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The Magician's Carpet, 



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