RECREATION 



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



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Edilor and Manager. 



19 West 24TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



" Therefore I Jumped it. ' '—Frontispiece Bert Cassidy 



How They Didn't Hit Him in the Eye J. B.Jennett 



" When Diana Gets Her Gun. " (Poem) Illustrated Stern Rakoff 



Work of the Swine. Illustrated J. D. P. 



An Autumn Horseback Trip. Illustrated *. J. F. Gordon 



The Opening of the Season R. B. Buckham 



A Cycle Race, with a Sequel Miss C. H. Thayer 



The Music of the Woods. (Poem) J. D. Crawford, Jr. 



Echoes in the Moonlight. (Poem) Marguerite Tracy 



A Yale-Princeton Football Game Courtland Nixon 



Ruffed Grouse and Woodcock U. B. 



Our Alaskan Exploring Expedition. Canoeing on the Stickeen. Illustrated A.J.Stone 



Catching a Tartar Capt. J. G. Leefe, U.S.A. 



A Canoe Trip to Rainy Lake Harry Silver 



The King of the Gaulies Mark T. Leonard 



Elkland. Illustrated Ernest Seton Thompson 



The Bear, the Belle, and the Blackberries Frances Webster 



A Boating Song (Poem) E. W. Mason 



How We Photoff.aphed the Wild Cat Coyote Bill 



The Wolf Question ... R. M. Allen, R. Ashworth, and Dr. Frank Dunham 



The Broadway Cable Sings. (Poem) Marguerite Tracy 



My Recreation. (Pcem) Hon. S. B. McManus 



From the Game Fields 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition 



Natural History 



Editor's Corner 



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Bicycling 



Game Notes 



Amateur Pnotography. . . 

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