RECREATION. 



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

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything that the Name Implies. 



$1.00 A Year, 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



19 West 24 ihSi rei i . 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



"At the Crack of the Nitro Something Broke." FRON1 IS! 



Pheasant Shooting. Illustrated Thomas G. Farrell. 



The Other Kind. (Poem) Brad. L. Hubert. 



Sitting Bull's Last Medicine. Illustrated Margaret Gray Brooks. 



When the Leaves Come Sailing Down. (Poem.) Illustrated. Col. W. T. Dennis. 



A Winter Trip to Jamaica. Illustrated S. B. HOPKINS. 



Crossing the Plains 30 Years Ago. Illustrated Gen. John Gibbon. U.S.A. 



A Mountain Lion Hunt by Night. Illustrated Robert Meade Smith, M.I). 



T routing on Clark's Fork. Illustrated Gen. F. W. Benteen, U.S.A. 



Ducking off Machipongo. Illustrated W. J. BoGERT. 



Gautemotzin, the Last of the Aztecs Dr. E. J. TUCK] R 



From the Game Fields 241 | Fish and Fishing 



Editor's Corner 247 | Amateur Photography 



Bicycling 249 | Publisher's Department 



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



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