RECREATION 



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



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



PACE 



"I've Got Him." Frontispiece, by C apt. C. B. Hudson 



The Angler's Passion. Illustrated G. A. Warburton 413 



Curlew in Little Rhoda. Illustrated J. B.Dunn, Jr. 4.7 



The Hooded Merganser. Illustrated Allan Brooks 418 



The Song My Good Reel Sings. Poem F. C. Reed 421 



How Beavers Work and Live. Illustrated T. Bickkord 422 



A Grizzly at Close Range • F - C. Howe 424 



Hunting the White Caribou. Illustrated S. C. T. 427 



He, She and It. Poem Eileen E. Syme 431 



The Fish We Used to Catch. Poem ..Joe Lincoln 433 



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449 



The Northwestern Skunk. Illustrated Allan Brooks 



A June Morning on a Trout Brook. Illustrated ........ H. A. Scott, M. D. 



A Spring Time Idyl. Poem A. L.Vermilya 



A Cruise Beyond Sunday H - M - Evans 



Pure American Blood - Lt. C. F. O'Kekfe, U. S, V. 



Uncle John's Story s - D - 



The Race Horse Case Hon. W. A. Richards 



A Vile Pest. Poem • w - H.Nelson 



From the Game Fields 



Fish and Fishing 457 



Guns and Ammunition 4 02 



Natural History 466 



The League of American Sportsmen 471 



Forestry 475 



Pure and Impure Foods 477 



Book Notices 4 g o 



Editor's Corner 482 



Publisher's Notes 483 



Amateur Photography 487 



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



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