RECREATION 



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

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



ii.oo a Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



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She Got Her Wings Set and Went Down Through the Pine Tops. Louis Akin Frontispiece 



My Cumberland Turkey. Illustrated R.L.Warner 331 



In the Carolina Woods. Illustrated S.Phelps. 



With Dog and Gun. Poem — : Maude E. S. Hymers 



A Day on the Marshes H.B. G. 



The Fowler of the Coast. Poem Colin McKay. 



A Broken Sabbath. Illustrated W. C. Baker. 



Ths Mountains of Florida. Illustrated Capt. L. G. Billings, U. S. N. 



A Florida Kid on a Camp Hunt Charley Apopka. 



An Hour in the Woods N. H. Covert. 



A Coon Hunt E. E. Edwards. 



Lake Pend D'Oreille. Poem L. E. Holmes, M. D. 



The Deer of Otter Slough A. E. Bradford. 



A Close Encounter with a Buck F. D. Fanning, M. D. 



The Phantom Fish of Sayner's Bar E. E. Hickok. 



A Call From the Wild Woods. Poem Colin McKay. 



A Ride Through the Land of the Nez Perces Major John Brooks, U. S. A. 



A Dream Hunt * CD Cooper. 



The Brooklet. Poem Rev. E. L. Tiffais y. 



From the Game Fields 3°3 



Fish and Fishing- ■ ■'• • 374 



Guns and Ammunition 378 



Natural History 299 



The League of American Sportsmen • - • ■ 3°4 



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Forestry 392 



Pure and Impure Foods 295 



Editor's Corner 398 



Publisher's Notes 400 



Amateur Photography 405 



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