RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1901, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COOUIXA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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Back of Barrio after Moose. Illustrated The Observer 



The Home of Love. Poem Emory Hawes 



The Biff Turtle of Sawmill Pond E. M. Leete 



The Vexed Beimoothes Judge Warren W. Foster 



When Father Hangs a Picture. Poem Charles Douglas 



Our Trip to Seboois • W. T. Critchley 



My Moose Hunt in 1901 W. G. Reed 



Mountain Quail Shooting in Lower California Charles B. Nordhoff 



He Am De Fish. Poem C.S.Marshall 



Elk Hunting in Wyoming Harry A. Shields 



Bichardson's Weasel. Illustrated > Allan Brooks 



A Dead Shot > David Bruce 



A Curious Owl C. E. Hutchinson 



Fox Trapping J. A. Newton 



Elegy on a Country Fish Hog. Poem , A. L. Vermilya 



A Unique Souvenir William Battle 



The Passing of the Salmon Harry Leonard 



A Bear Hunt — Old Silver Tip 



St. John's Biver. Poem Frank H. Sweet 



From the Game Fields .... 279 



Fish and Fishing 289 



Guns and Ammunition 293 



Natural History 299 



The League of American Sportsmen 3°3 



Forestry 30S 



Pure and Impure Foods 310 



Publisher's Notes 313 



Editor's Corner 314 



Amateur Photography 323 



Entered as Second-Class Matter at New York Post-Office, Oct. 17, 1S94. 



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