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), 

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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



A Tragedy in the Maine Woods. Illustrated Wm. e. Coffin 



Hunting Goats with a Camera, illustrated a. E. Stanfield 



A Skirmish with Peccaries, illustrated J. M. Slovensky 



Bass Fishing and Springwater. illustrated J. A. Mackenzie 



Trouting on Beaver Creek, illustrated C. L. Meyer 



The Regeneration of Eagle Bar A. L. Vermilya 



A Grouse Hunt in the Trinity Mountains D. S. Ballard 



One Shot on the Wing Wm. M. Hundley 



A New Experience in Millinery Gene S. Porter 



A Contract. Poem I . N. Camera 



A Bee Hunt Edward E. Roy 



The Harmless Hog. Poem W. H. Thompson 



Three Days in the Hot Country • F- S. Onderdonk 



A Clean Miss G. L. Cable 



From the Game Fields "6 



Fish arid Fishing 124 



Guns and Ammunition 130 



Natural History 135 



The League of American Sportsmen 139 



Editor's Corner 142 



Publisher's Department 

 Pure and Impure Foods- 

 Forestry Department •• 



Book Notices 



Amateur Photography 



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