One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

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.