RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1896, 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. 



19 West 24TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



Page 



' ' We were so close and our fire was so deadly the nearest one died within 10 feet of us " Frontispiece 



A Hot Corner on Bears. Illustrated Dr. A. J. Woodcock 



Summer Holidays on a Houseboat, II. Illustrated H. E. Beatty 



Photographing a Quail. Illustrated N. D. Keys 



Hunting with a Camera. Illustrated W. E. Carlin 



The Decorative Use of Butterflies and Moths R. P. Froelich 



Sea Murmurs. Poem. Illustrated F. P. Corrigan 



Asleep with a Corpse. A Tale of Old Mexico Capt. W. R. Hamilton 



At Close Quarters with an Alligator Frank A. Hackelman 



A Snipe Hunt in Florida. Illustrated R. J. Totten 



Western Porcupine. (JErethrizon epixanthus. ) Illustrated Allan Brooks 



How it Feels to be Shot with a Shrapnel Bullet. Illustrated Mason Mitchell 



" Driftin' Down the Nile upon the Tide." Illustrated F. Colburn Clarke 



A Pineland Spectre Allan Hendricks 



Uncle Dinks' Turkey Hunt Virginius 



Hunting a Holiday Marguerite Tracy 



Fishin'. Poem Anson Evans 



Hunting Gold in the Klondike Geo. A. Peabody 



Rafting on the Yukon Harry L. Suydam 



From the Game Fields 35 6 



Fish and Fishing 3 6 7 



Guns and Ammunition . . . . . 372 



Natural History 37 6 



The League of American Sportsmen 3 8 3 



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Editor's Corner 388 



Publisher's Department 3 8 9 



Book Notices 391 



Bicycling 393 



Amateur Photography 399 



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



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