RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1898, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



Bear in Yellowstone Park. Illustrated. Frank 



A. Johnson 3 



On the Banks of the Wabash. Illustrated. 



Gene S. Porter 7 



On Roddy's Bar. A Plumb Lake Episode. 



Poem. E. E. Hickok 9 



"Wolve8 On the StOOk Range. A. Whitehead. 11 



How I Missed the Picnic, w. H. H 12 



Turkey Hunting. Turkey Hunter 14 



A Plea for the Birds. Poem. W. H. Nelson.. 16 



A Trial at the Geese. J. H. v. Bache 17 



Camp Song. Poem. Hale Howard Richardson. 17 



A Day with the Ducks. Philip C Locke — 18 



An Afternoon in the Woods. J I Ostrander. 19 



Old and New Guns. Poem. A. M. Bowman 20 



A Beginning on Quails. J- A. Mackenzie 21 



A Squirrel Hunt in West Virginia. Thomas 



H. Hudson 23 



A Trip to the Maine Woods. Illustrated. F. 



M. Spiegle 24 



Camp Fire Stories. Cazador 28 



The Elk and the Setter. Boone 29 



Entered as Second-Class Matter at 



Returning from the Hunt. Illustrated. Wm. 



C, B.Merriam 30 



An Angling Experience. H. F. Hershey 31 



The Stream of Dreams. Poem. F. S. Dickson. 32 



Playing a Prize. T. F. H 33 



My Rifle. Poem. W.H.Nelson 49 



The Song Of the Swan. Baldwin Sears 67 



BoulimistS. Jas. Weir, Jr., M. D 6 9 



With Slaves After Sheep and Caribou. A. J. 



Stone 71 



TWO Trout Stories. C. E. Hansen 73 



A Continuous Performance. Herb 74 



From the Game Fields 34 



Fish and Fishing 43 



Guns and Ammunition 4 6 



Natural History 50 



The League of American Sportsmen 54 



Editor's Corner 57 



Publisher's Department 59 



Pure and Impure Foods 62 



Forestry Department 65 



Amateur Photography 77 



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