Life — July 19, 1917 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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An Old-Time Straw Ride | N the hush of the x 1 moonlight, When Nature arrays her in white, We forget the stern facts of the noon | | light | And revel in fancies of night. The cloudlets are silvered and feecy, Like kisses the balmy dews fall, And 1, thot my Am happy withal ch is uneasy, Fourteen of us there cribbed and Tight packed, like a spare set spoons, And if anything singular happened We'll say that the fault was the moon's, The best of us only are mortals, Poor puppets of absolute chance— ok us straight through the Our drive i Of Summer romance. Ah, me, how the moon on the river The cares of the cold world effaced ! 1 you—did you notice the quiver That ran through the arm round your A waist? Wh Did von ess as the soft light was less- aad. TING | ms" Pye tie ees Y/ W@ Steel Lined SHOT SHELLS he And dreamed such strange dreams? Impossible? Well, did we measure ARE you one of the thousands of men who will | | | | Our lives with a possible span; : ; . o be If we snatched at no flowerets of pleas- be selecting a new gun this year? at the i tire As a sportsman, all you know about guns and everything you alias |g VBA A desolate vatlniny, had mae. want in your gun, should lead you to Remington UMC. : e pluck them, they crumble to ashes, . . _ drink, Nor beauty nor perfume survive ‘ The Remington UMC Pump Gun if your choice is for the hand rast Yet we live in those transient flashes operated repeater—the Remington UMC Autoloading Shotgun if tericon The best of our lives. you prefer that type of arm. m col: I know it was but a concession Solid breech, hammerless —strong, simple, workmanlike — their | 1906- To questions of space and of size, = shooting qualities in the field and at the traps attested by anisms Nor could I detect the expression Z thousands of sportsmen of the very first class. 6 mil- ‘That lurked in the depths 0 eyes y oa ; 5 . anil Bit st Msew inst the toonlight had And for your ammunition —if you are guided by the men in the cae | drowned you front rank of the shooting game, you will use Remington UMC nal to In dreams that were pleasant enough, Steel Lined “ Speed Shells” to the exclusion of all others. many an ee “e oe my"arm was! sround, you You know what that steel lining means—the punch, the penetra- im de atout:satre tion, that extra margin of speed that counts in results, a, but iver! | te ioe Ah, moonlight and midnight and river . Sold by Sporting Goods Dealers in Your Town h, head half reposed on my breast! Pa Why could ye not stay so forever, i THE REMINGTON ARMS UNION METALLIC om That 1 might forever Le blest? | CARTRIDGE COMPANY, Inc. i For the touch on my arm of your fingers, | Largot Manufacturers of Firearms and Ammunition in the World at a: My own blindly, wearily grope— Woolworth Building, New York Medi- To-day but a memory Engers REMINGTON UMC OF CANADA, Limited their : fe Windsor, Ontario And scarcely a hope. poiled od, is ¢ ovr 1, and derful | And mirror f And your life f Who knoweth how far : ' NX, = Q And ve ml COMPASS s ‘on > 6 There's ie | FOR THE:OUTDOOR'MAN oat Sirs: You should not ne ASK YOUR DEALER eer Miss | Kaylor Instrument Companies of the fellows who have been ‘ours ROCHESTER NY. Ss ME Mokers of Scientific Instruments of Superiority wal to come in for their item the UA now bls PETER J. CAMRY, PRINTER T xum | comicbooks.com