RECREATION. 



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

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything that the Name Implies. 



;i.oo A Year, 



10 Cents A Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA). 

 Editor and Manager. 



17,6 West 24111 S 1 ree i . 



NEW York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Belle Was Waltzing to the Music of the Gavotte FRONTISI 



Billy Boy and Belle. Illustrated Katherine M. Baxter. 



A Bald Faced Grizzly in Camp. Illustrated M. W. Mi nek. 



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



A Close Call for General Sherman Lieut. J. H. Sands, U. S. A. 



Where Leaps the Ouananiche. (Poem) Dr. E. L. Tiffany. 



Lost in the Cheat Mountains W. L. Washington. 



Fly Fishing Dr. M. G. Eelzev. 



A Half Hour With the Quail Dr. E. P. Kremer (Juvenis). 



Guatemotzin, a Tale of the Aztecs Dr. J. E. Tucker. 



The Genesis of the Metallic Cartridges. Illustrated. Capt. Philip Reade.L.S.A. 



From the Game Fields 



Editor's Corner 145 |' Fish and Fishing 



Possible Smiles 146 I Amateur Photography 



Bicycling 147 | Publisher's Department 



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



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