RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1900, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



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The Great Grey Gander Came in Sight. Ernest Seton-Thompson Frontispiece 



A Double Shot and a Single Goose. Illustrated L. T. M'Kim. 249 



One Goose and Another J. B. Dunn, Jr. 233 



Twilight. Poem John T. Goolrick, Jr. 253 



Goose Shooting from a Stand. ••- Grorge G. Reed. 257 



The "Wild Goose in Domestication. Illustrated — A. S. Doane. 259 



Goose Shooting on the Sacramento..* Gibbs Huntley. 261 



The Home of the Emperor Goose L. L. Bales. 263 



The Pursuers Destroyed. Illustrated Hon. C. L. Bailey. 26s 



A Day in Fall. Poem •• Cedric Harley. 26$ 



An Unexpected Capture w - A. Finch, 269 



A Boy, A Musket, and A Prairie Chicken C. L Hart, 3>^ 



A Florida Kid on a Camp Hunt Charley Apopka. 271 



The Lament of the Stuntless One Myra Emmons. 272 



Hunting Deer by Starlight • V. L. James. 273 



Richardson's Squirrel. Illustrated Allan Brooks. 275 



The Smile of Sunset. Poem M. W. Miner. 276 



A Midnight Visitor - L. n . Hoback. 277 



Nature's Prayer. Poem... H. N. De La Noy. 277 



On and Around Lake Chelan ..Ralf Krows. 279 



From the Game Fields 283 



Fish and Fishing 289 



Guns and Ammunition 293 



Natural History 299 



The League of American Sportsmen 3°4 



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