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 YTork. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



PAGE 



44 It made frantic efforts to reach a place of safety."- Frontispiece 



An Alaskan Moose Hunt. Illustrated j OHN C. Campbell 



Ducking on the Susquehanna F. Zimmerman 



Tishin'. Poem. Illustrated ....Wm. A. Thomson 



American "White-Fronted Goose. Anser albifrons gambeli. Illustrated Allan Brooks 



Second Annual Meeting. Report of the President. Illustrated 255 



The Emancipation of Jady. Illustrated Hon. L. A. Huffman 



Why tha Biggest One Got Away, illustrated Mrs. G. S. Porter 



Forest Protection. Illustrated Dr. John C. Gifford 



249 

 251 

 253 

 254 



261 



265 



269 

 2 73 



In Paradise E. J. Meyers 



The Hoary Marmot. Arctomys caligatus. Illustrated : Allan Brooks 276 



Coming Home. Poem Frank Farrington 277 



Leroux's Garoon. Poem 



From the Game Fields 285 



Fish and Fishing 292 



Guns and Ammunition 297 



Natural History 303 



The League of American Sportsmen 307 



G. W. Stevens 278 



Editor's Corner 3 12 



Publisher's Notes 3 x 3 



Pure and Impure Foods 3*4 



Forestry 3*7 



Amateur Photography 3 2 3 



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



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