RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1899, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



23 West 24TH Street, 



New York, 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



1 



Hunting on the Pungwae River. Illustrated A. C. Humbert 



The Trail to Paradise E.J. Myers 



Among the Blacktails. Illustrated H. C. Wilcox 



Guy. Poem W. P. Mac Henry 



Canadian Buffed Grouse. Illustrated Allan Brooks 



The Gypsy Moth in Massachusetts. Illustrated A. H. Kirkland 



The Wild Goose as a Domestic Bird. Illustrated Norman Pomeroy,Jr. 



The Fallacies of Cormier's Kippewa. illustrated w. A. w. 



Liard River Indians A. J. Stone 



Douglas' Squirrel. Illustrated Allan Brooks 



Hard Lines at Kitchawan G. A. Mack 



When the Frost Comes Out the Gumbo Stanley Snow 



Optimism A. L. Vermilya 



Hunting the Blue Grouse "With Revolver. Illustrated L. C. Burnett, Jr. 



The Passing of the Wild Fowl A. S. Doane 



Spare the Minstrels A. L. Vermilya 



Peary and the Pole. Poem A. L. Vermilya 



HOW I Got Even With My Guide Frank Seaman 



From the Game Fields 199 



Fish and Fishing 207 



Guns and Ammunition 213 



Natural History 219 



The League of American Sportsmen 224 



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



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