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 West 24.TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



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When the Wind Began to Blow Again I Would Sit Down and Slide in the Snow " Frontispiece 



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Hunting Mountain Sheep in a Snow-storm. Illustrated Capt. S. A. Lawson 



Speed Skating A. M. Anderson 



Deer in the Coast Range Daniel Arrowsmith 



Memories of a Quail Hunt G. E. B. 



In the Shin-Oaks of Texas John C. Casparis 



Shooting in Albania D. G. Cary-Elwes, F. S. A. 



The Chiricahu Hounds Lt. A. F. Capron, U. S. A. 



The Indian and the Deer Old Silver Tip 



Grouse in New Hampshire Old Bill 



In the Bitter Root Mountains. Illustrated H. S. Garfield, M. D. 



In Early Days Geo. Ha yden 



A Raid by the Kiowas — T. C. Austin 



A Grizzly and a Muzzle-loader A. Plummer 



Notes on Making Bird Skins F. E. Fleming 



Foxes in the Big Swamp C. P. Franklin 



Grandfather's Wish. (Poem) J. C. Briggs 



Elkland, III. Illustrated Ernest Seton Thompson 



Adrift on an Ice Floe Peter Awick 



" In Autumn Time." (Poem) " Olancha " 



The Wolf Question Hon. B. B. Brooks, Hon. Horace Beach, Otto Franc, and others 



While Sitting in the Blind. (Poem) Frank C. Riehl 



On the Chilkat Pass Harry L. Suydam 



From the Game Fields. 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition . 



Natural History 



Editor's Corner 



Bicycling 



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Entered as Second-Class Matter at 



Canoeing 



Announcements 



Puzzle Corner 



Book Notices 



Publisher's Department — 

 Amateur Photography 



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