AFTER considerable weighing of the
pros and cons I have decided to
include the names of firms where certain
supplies may be bought. I realize that
this sort of free advertisement is eminently
unjust to other worthy houses handling the
same lines of goods, but the case is one of
self-defense. In
The Forest I rashly offered
to send to inquirers the name of the
firm making a certain kind of tent. At
this writing I have received and answered
over eleven hundred inquiries. Since the
publication of these papers in
The Outing
Magazine, I have received hundreds of
requests for information as to where this,
that, or the other thing may be had. I have
tried to answer them all, but to do so has
been a tax on time I would not care to
repeat. Therefore I shall try in the following
pages to give the reader all the practical
information I possess, even though, as
stated, I may seem unduly to advertise the
certain few business houses with which I have
had satisfactory dealings. It is needless to
remark that I am interested in none of these
firms, and have received no especial favors
from them.
