RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1896, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



J 1. 00 a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



<;. o. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



19 West 24T11 Street, 



York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



"With One Long, Silent Stroke She Glided into Mid-Stream." Frontispiece Harry Watson 



Pocahontas in England. Illustrated J. C. 



How the Big Ram Was Killed. Illustrated F. W. S. 



My Twenty-two Point Buck. Illustrated F. D. Hulbi r 1 



The First Day of the Chicken Season A. B. Cowie 



Goose Shooting in Colorado. Illustrated W.E.King 



A Good Indian. Illustrated Nelson Yarnale 



" A Fishing Story." (Poem.) Illustrated Capt. H. P. Beckwith 



The Rented Bicycle Suit. Illustrated Walter I. Shay 



My Last Hunt in Kansas. Illustrated Gen. F. W. Benteen 



The Cowboy's Version of the Prodigal Son Pony Bill 



"Spring." (Poem) : W. T. Jones 



Only a Dog A. W. Dimock 



Hoover's Ranch Jas. Hanks 



Trouting on the Thunder A. D. Curtis 



Mark East! S. T. Earns 



" Piscatory Evolution." (Poem.) Illustrated Frank E. Page 



A Hard Ride in the Mountains J. G. T. 



Rabbit Shooting in Kansas A. W. Bitting 



Some Old Guns. Illustrated Capt. Philip Reade U.S.A. 



From the Game Fields 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition 



Natural History 



Editor's Corner 



Bicycling. . .. 



Puzzle Page 



Book Notices 



Amateur Photography. . . 

 Publisher's Department. 



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Entered as Second-Class Matter at New York Post-Office, Oct. 17, i> 



Hoa Thomas Marshall 



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 WINNER OF 



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