RECREATION. 



Copyright May, 1895, by G. O. Shields. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything that the Name Implies 



51. 00 A Year, 



10 Cents A Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



216 Williaa\ Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Woodcock Shooting — " Steady ! " Frontispiece. 



Woodcock on the Islands. Illustrated F. W. G. Johnson. 



Salmo Fontinalis. Illustrated A, O. Pritchard. 



A Mountain Storm. (Poem.) Illustrated Francis P. Owings. 



Crossing the Rockies in '61. Illustrated Major W. H. Schieffelin. 



Murder. (Poem.) ' Charlotte W. Thurston. 



" Heap Good Man." Illustrated Wm. Edward Coffin. 



Es 1st Das Gluck Ein Fluchtig Ding. (Poem.) Dr. E. L. Tut any. 



The Gordon Setter. Illustrated Dr. J. Whitaker. 



A Morning with the Varmints. Illustrated Utilles Baird. 



The Sportsmen's Exposition. Illustrated 



Guatemotzin. — The Last of the Aztecs Dr. E. J. Tucker. 



Signs that Never Fail. (Poem.) 



Bicycling 



Editor's Corner . . 

 Fish and Fishing. 



44 



45, 

 46 



Possible Smiles 



Amateur Photography 



Pack 



3 

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 31 

 33 

 38 

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 48 

 50 



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