MONEY IN ROD AND GUN.
How to Combine Profit and Pleasure--Some Truths About
Trout--Stories of the Wild North--Fortunes in Furs--Nearly Five
Million Skins a year--Cost of Birds for Ladies’ Hats--$25 a Day and
Your Own Game Keeper--An Elephant Hunt in Africa.
Happy is the man who can combine pleasure and profit. Most men use the
rod and gun for sport, but there are a number of persons who follow the
business “professionally.” Especially in the great forests of the north
are found thousands of men to whom the skins of wild beasts may be said
to be meat and drink. Some of them even attain a competence and retire
on their savings from the sale of furs. This is less surprising when we
remember that people in the great northern wilderness spend little
beyond what is needful for the bare necessaries of life.