RECREATION. 



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What's 

 the Use 



of walking; when you 

 can get a first-class, high- 

 grade bicycle for nothing? 



How? 



By getting 75 subscriptions for 



Recreation 



If you live in a town of 3,000 

 or more, and if you are a hustler 

 you can get these in 2 days. 



I can give you the names of 20 

 people who did this in 1896, and 

 who now have their wheels. 



Write for particulars. 



RECREATION 



19 West 24th Street 

 , New York 



I wonder how many of your readers have 

 ever hunted "gators"? Now that the 

 deer, turkeys and quails are resting, and 

 building, we of the South land take a bull's 

 eye lantern, a boat and a rifle and shoot 

 alligators. I have killed about a dozen in 

 one small pond, during the summer and 

 spring, all sizes. We shine their eyes while 

 in a boat, shoot them and then with a gator 

 hook, drag them ashore. 



Fishing has been rather slow. Two of 

 us had one fine morning's sport. Fished 

 2 hours, about sunrise, and caught 24 good 

 bass. The string weighed 27 pounds; 

 largest fish, 6 r /% pounds. I landed him 

 with a 2 ounce bamboo rod and a small 

 line. Am expecting lots of sport next win- 

 ter, among larger game. 



D. Burson, Seffner, Fla. 



I don't think there are 150 elk left in the 

 Big Horn mountains; but they are cor- 

 nered about Ten Sleep lakes, among rocky 

 peaks, where they make a lot of tracks in a 

 small area. I saw most of them, after snow 

 fall, and there were no scattering tracks. 

 It is too bad to see the elk wiped out. 

 Nothing can save them. 



Game has wintered fairly well; only old 

 cow and bulLelk are dying off. No bear 

 signs anywhere this spring; very few an- 

 telope, but a good sprinkling of deer. 



B. H., Jackson, Wyo. 



BOOKS 



By C. O. SHIELDS 



(coquina) 



THE BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA 



Its Habits, Habitat, Haunts and Characteristics. 

 How, When and Where to Hunt it. 8vo, 600 

 pages, 80 illustrations. Cloth, $3.50; Half Mor- 

 occo, $5.00 ; Full Morocco, $6.50. 



CRUISINGS IN THE CASCADES 



A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur 

 Photography, Hunting and Fishing, with Special 

 Chapters on Hunting the Grizzly Bear, the Buf- 

 falo, Elk, Antelope, Rocky Mountain Goat, and 

 Deer ; also on Trouting in the Rocky Mountains ; 

 on a Montana Roundup ; Life Among the Cow- 

 boys, etc. i2mo, 300 pages, 75 illustrations. Cloth, 

 $2 ; Half Morocco, $3. 



AMERICAN GAME FISHES 



How, When and Where to Angle for them. 8vo, 

 400 pages, 50 illustrations. Cloth, $2.50; Half Mor- 

 occo, $4. 



HUNTING IN THE GREAT WEST 



(Rustlings In the Rockies) 



Hunting and Fishing Sketches by Mountain and 

 Stream. i2mo, cloth. Over 300 pages. Illustrated. 

 Price, 75 cents. 



THE AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DOG 



The Origin, Development, Special Characteristics, 

 Utility, Breeding, Training, Diseases and Kennel 

 Management of all Breeds of Dogs. 8vo, 650 pages, 

 100 illustrations. Cloth, $3.50; Half Morocco, $5; 

 Full Morocco, $6.50. 



CAMPING AND CAMP OUTFITS 



A Manual of Instruction for Young and Old Sports- 

 men. i2mo, 200 pages, 30 illustrations. Cloth, $1.25. 



THE BATTLE OF THE BIG HOLE 



History of General Gibbon's Engagement with 

 the Nez Perce Indians in the Big Hole Basin, Mon- 

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 illustrated. Cloth, $1. 

 These books will be mailed, post-paid, on receipt 



qf price, by the author. 



Q. O. SHIELDS 



19 West 24th St., New York 



