The Audubon Magazine, Published in the Interests of the Audubon Society for the Protection of Birds Volume 1-2

Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...studious young folks; $x. a year, ers; $1. The things to be paid are better than money, because they are more than the money could possibly be. They are better also, some of them, because you never heard of them, and wouldn't have the chance to get them for some time yet. But the rate! For $1.25 in new subscriptions we pay $1 in merchandise! More than that on the average. Some things we get to better advantage than others. We pay as we buy. Take a well-known example: the Wa-doormat, price $4, for $4.50 in new sub-Another: a Mason & Hamlin organ (caterbury watch with chain and whistle scriptions. Another: the Bissell Carpet talogue price $165) tor $rio in new suband agate charm. We call them alto-sweeper, price S3, for $3.35. Another: scriptions. Another: your choice of jrether worth $3, and pay them for $4 the Kerosene Brick, price 35 cents, for Prang's water color art studies and rein new subscriptions. Another well-ocents. Another: a photographic out-productions of oil paintings, $1 for $1.10. known example: the Weeden engine, fit, Horsman's Eclipse, $2-50, for $3-75. Another: your choice of 2000 books, any price $1.35, for $1.35 in new subscrip-Another: everything children wear, $1 book we publish, $1 for $1.20. And so lions. for $1.60. Another: jack-plane pencil-on through 32 pages of picked-out things Another example not well-known but sharpener, 25 cents, for 30 cent?. An-for children ana picked-out things for worth knowing: the Hartman steel-wire other: silver-plated ware, $1 for $1.10. the family. Send five cents for a sample copy of any one magazine, or fifteen cents for all. D LOTHROP COMPANY Publishers Franklin and Hawley Streets Boston IT may be remembered by those who read The Auk for October (1886), that the writer...