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FOREST AND STREAM 
December, 1919 
Theodore Roosevelt’s 
Adventure Books 
Uniform library edition in six volumes. Illustrated. Set boxed, $15; 
separate volumes, each $2.50 net 
AFRICAN GA:ME TRAILS. Two volumes. ' 
THROUGH THE RRAZILIAN WILDERNESS 
OUTDOOR PASTIMES OP AN AMERICAN HUNTER 
A BOOK-LOVER’S HOLIDAYS IN THE OPEN 
THE ROUGH RIDERS 
It is now possible for the first time to have a uniform edition of 
these remarkable volumes in which Colonel Roosevelt expressed the 
joyous adventures which, from youth to the end, paralleled his p^rcat 
public career. Flere is the vigorous, manly, outdoor sportsman who 
made a remarkable appeal to all men no matter what their politics ; 
in these six volumes are his great adventures which will continue to stir 
the hearts of young men everywhere. Here is the leader of the Rough 
Riders who was idolized by his men ; th.e hunter of bears and mountain- 
lions in our West and South the naturalist studying and hunting the 
great game of Africa through the heart of the unknown continent ; the 
explorer discovering to the world “The River of Doubt” — called for- 
ever after “Rio Roosevelt.” 
As years go by these records, hundreds of pages of which were writ- 
ten by his own hand in the midst of the wild regions he describes, will 
take their place among the classics of adventure. No man who ever 
reached his eminence in public life left such a record of what would 
have been a full life in itself without his activities as statc.sman. 
Another Roosevelt Book 
Your affectionate father, 
Theodore Roosevelt’s 
Letters to His Children 
The great Christmas book — for fa- 
thers, mothers, and children of all ages. 
“What a father, what lucky childre’i. 
What fun in store for other fathers and 
children.” — Ak Y. Sun. 
Illustrated. $2.0!) 
T he great book of 
fall. 
“The sensation of the hour; 
there is nothing else like it 
in the Enghsh language.” — 
X. V. Herald. 
“These letters lift Roose- 
velt at once to a higher level 
of literary atta uinent than 
any otlier of his published 
writings.” — N. V. Evening- 
Sun. 
“I am afraid that nobod,,’ 
who may liappen to dislike 
Itlr, Roosevelt will ever ho 
able to do so again after 
reading these pages.” — Chi- 
cago Post. 
“Many books have been 
written by and about, Theo- 
dore Roosevelt and tltis col- 
lection of Ids letters will 
stand at their head.” — Ros- 
loii Transoiii»t. 
FOREST AND STREAM (Book Dept.) Y'orci.fi?V. 
east and lov/er over the dark sea a 
stronger gray was spreading in long 
streaks. With the coming of the day we 
settled ourselves in the sneak-boxes and 
slipped the loads of Number 5’s in tae 
guns. 
A S the light increased the wild ex- 
panse of bay and marshland was dis- 
closed. Rough, gray water, islands 
of brown rushes swayed and bent before 
the stronger gusts of wind; heavy gray 
clouds milling in a leaden sky. Far to 
the east lay the long, narrow stretch of 
beach with undulating sand dunes, a har- 
rier betw cn bay and sea. To the west the 
thick dark woods backed the marshes, and 
parted at the river, the turbulent waters 
of ^'hich narrowed into the distance be- 
tween the sv.’aying pine trees. 
Flocks of ducks could bo seen battling 
their way into the face of the strong 
wind or scudding before it at a tremend- 
ous speed. 
Suddenly two ducks, seemingly from 
nowhere, pitched into the water among 
the outside decoys. For a moment they 
Eat there still, and in the wan half-light 
they were hardly distinguishable from 
the wooden counterfeits. Suddenly they 
.lumped and swung off down the -wind. We 
both fired and one of them splashed into 
the water. The first duck of the day 
proved to be a handsome male red-head. 
The reported Sight of red-heads had 
been true. Our island lay in the bay op- 
posite the mouth of the river and about 
a hundred yards from the mainland. 
The lately arrived ducks were trading up 
and down the river and cut over the bay 
and we lay directly in their line of flight. 
During the first few hours we enjoyed 
some excellent shooting. The ducks came 
rapidlj’, they were all red-heads with the 
exception of two or three flocks of scaup 
or broad-bills. Our decoys had been placed 
when it was yet night but past seasons 
on the bay had stood us in good stead 
and they were well put out. The 
hand at the game will throw out his de- 
coys before dawn and then nine times out 
rf t-n w’ll find thrt v.’ith the romhig of 
day-light the flock does not look in the 
lea-t as he intended it to. The decoys 
may be much too far off shore or entirely 
too near. They may be grouped too 
closely or stru;!g out in a straggling line 
far loo long. In 'the latter case a duck 
coming to them would cff-.T the poorest 
'-ort of a shot, if any. The beginner must 
first learn to put out his d'coys properly 
by daylight. Later on with patience he 
v/ill acquire the knack of putting them 
out by night when distances on the water 
are difficult to estimate and the surround- 
ings seem strange and confusing. 
Our decoys were so placed that dheks 
headed for them and flying -with the wind 
would not have to pass over our blind be- 
fore swinging into the counterfeits. Also 
birds coming against t’nc wind would 
come straight in to the decoys without 
passing over the blind. Yet the decoys 
were slightly to leeward of the point, 
where they were out of the full sweep o£ 
the wind and in calmer water. 
