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CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



Indian River Frontisi 



Trouting in Alaska. (Illustrated.) Maj. John Brooke, U. S. A. 



Sunrise in the Sierras Elizabeth A. Vore. 



A Bear in Camp. (Illustrated.) Prof. F. V. Yeager. 



Deer Hunting. (Poem.) Isaac McLellan. 



The Giant Wolf of Bonaplace. (Illustrated.) President Bates. 



Our First Elk. (Illustrated.) A Member of the Carlin Party 



Goat Hunting in the Cascade Mountains. (Illustrated.) J. S. Stangroom. 



The Vulnerable Spot. (Illustrated.) J. N. Hall, M. D. 



A Summer's Outing — an Episode. (Illustrated.) H. M. Harper. 



A Frontier Funeral Howard Eaton. 



Quail Shooting in Georgia William Perry Brown. 



Two Red-Letter Days. (Illustrated.) H. C. Wilcox. 



Bicycling 



,Gen. W. P. Carlin and Lieut. Clough Ovf.rton, U. S. A. 



The Colgate Affair. . 



Editorial 220 



Fish and Fishing 223 



Possible Smiles 224 



From the Game Fields 225 



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



Book Notices 



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