Adventure Magazine, Mid-September 1917 — page 187: what you’re looking at

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The Camp-Fire For this I have no evidence, as Eusebio has flick- ered and the only other I could cite was poor old Fred Mills, the surveyor, who passed along in a revolution. They shet him through both thighs. Then stood him up, a crotch beneath both arms, roped him to a tree, knocked out the gold filling of his teeth with a rock and left him to his fate. God! man, foul things do happen. WHILE I’m at it PU tell you another. Last week while in Juticalpa on biz. I lost a cuff- button endeared by memories of a dead friend. I was romping por la tarde with a little girl friend (not at all, she’s only twelve years old) in the calle and in the shuffle se fue mi mancuernilla. High and low I looked and offered a small reward; no use, nothing doing. Well, I gave it up for lost and grieved accordingly. Next morning about seven o’clock, having need of a new collar, and trusting no mozo to buy that, I went out to get it and lo! there in the middle of the street it lay, a great big gold circle, shamefully big, with a huge R in bas relief. A noteworthy trifle, gifted by an old miner, gleaming like the unwinking eye of Olus. The city has a population of some 3,000 and that calle is the most traficado in the lot, yet none had “given with it” till its duefie came along. Yea, truth discounts fiction. HAT stud is so big I’m ashamed of it, but for the love I bore to the great-souled man who gave it to me I often wear it. I’ve always been a bit superstitious about it anyway and now—how much 185 more? He lay in my arms, breathing his last, bathed in his spouting life-blood, and said to me in that last hesitating husky whisper so faint as to be almost inaudible, ‘Billy, take my studs, never lose them, and while they’re yours I’ll watch for you.” He passed and I have guarded those mementos as my dearest possession since. Maybe he’s watching; anyway my luck’s been great. Who knows? There be many things, Horatio, not dreamed of in our philosophy.—Wwm. C. RoBErTsSoN, M. D. VERY‘ once in a while some one gets the idea he can’t speak at our Camp- Fire because he’s never written a story for the magazine. Wrong idea. Open to all. It’s just a question of space and of picking out those whose talks seem most suitable and interesting for a bunch like us. Any- body who wishes, and has in him the general spirit of adventure, is not only wel- come at our Camp-Fire but is one of us. ATURALLY I’m hoping you like this the first mid-month issue of our magazine, but most of all I’m hoping twenty-four numbers a year will bring us twice as many good friends and comrades as the magazine has brought us in the past. I’m talking about friends, not circulation. ARTHUR SULLIVANT HOFFMAN. For All Interested in Military or Naval Affairs WE GIVE you below, in addition to those mentioned in the last issue, a list of books , which we believe ‘will prove of special value and aid both to enlisted men and officers and to those who will make up our great army this Fall. Wagon "Consoys, by Captain R. M. Parker. A manual of Army regulations, military laws, small-arms firing, field- service regulations, SOpOREND y, and caetels and cavalry drill regulations.—George V. Harvey, 109 Lafayette St., New York, N. Y. $2.00. Technic of Modern Tactics, by P. 8. Bond and M. J. McDonough. A study of troop-leading methods in the operations of detachments of all arms. 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