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), 

 Editor and Manager. 



19 WBST 24TH Streht, 



N'kw York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



The New Sport. Bait-Casting for Fox -Terriers.— Frontispiece 



The Willet. Illustrated Wilmot TOWNSEND 



The Mongolian Pheasant. Illustrated G. M. Miller 



The Salmon's Rival c - F - Holder 



A Day in the Adirondacks J- Kodemeyer, Jr. 



An Ideal Camp. (Poem) C. P. 



A League of American Sportsmen Ralph D. Lvdecker 



Biking for Bass w - w - Blackwell 



A Bear Hunt in the Trinity Mountains H. C. Crocker 



Unknown to the Jury W,LL Scribbler 



A Winter Day's Sport Wm. Gerard Chapman, Jr. 



A Dry Camp Dr - e - b - Davis 



A Comanche Liar , Capt. C. J. Crane 



On Croatan E. J. Myers 



Recreation. (Poem) Beth Day 



Elkland. (Illustrated)...—, Ernest Seton Thompson 



The Little Breakwaters , Marguerite Tracy 



The Copper River Country L. L. Bales 



The Wolf Question Edw. L. Munson, L. A. Huffman, Vic Smith, Geo. B. McClellan, 



M. P. Dunham 



From the Game Fields 



Game Notes 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition 



Natural History 



Editor's Corner 



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Puzzle Corner 



Bicycling 



Canoeing 



Publisher's Department. 

 Amateur Photography. . . 

 Book Notices 



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Reproduced from an admirable article on " Teeth, ' published in ir»o 

 Pall Mall Gazette (London). July 22, 1897. 



As regards the care we take of our teeth, a lady friend of mine 

 lispingly suggested that we were divided into two main classes— «*soz who 

 do and sozodont." I wondered that she had_ 



Entered as Second-Class Matter at New York Post-Office, Oct. 17, 1894. 



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Envoy. 



You do or you don't. She didn't. The result : 

 a deformity (she lisped), a regret, an admission. 

 The highest praise of Sozodont is an admission 

 like this. But it doesn't do to delay. The 

 moral is plain. 



A sample of liquid (antiseptic) Sozodont free for the postage, three cents, ii you mention this magazine and 

 address P. O. Box 247, New York. HALL & RUCKEL, Proprietors, New York and London. 



