RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1902, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



!i.oo A Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



Ben Doubled Him Up into a Wad and Sent Him Spinning 



Ben; the Story of a Cub. Illustrated .. 



The Bread of Idleness. Illustrated 



Photographing- in the Moro Country. Illustrated 



A Plaoe Just East of Persia. Poem 



The Hawk Bounty Question. Illustrated 



With a Peeled Pole 



The Seagull- Poem 



A Study of Feathers. Illustrated 



W'y De Fish Don' Bite. Poem 



What Wouldn't I Give. Poem 



The Jacana. Illustrated 



Pounding the Wrong Coon 



Montana Reminiscences 



The Florida Kid- XI 



A Day Off. Poem 



The Truant. Poem 



From the Game Fields 35 



Fish and Fishing 43 



Guns and Ammunition 47 



Natural History 53 



The League of American Sportsmen 57 



Forestry 60 



Pure and Impure Foods 



Book Notices 



Publisher's Notes 



Editor's Corner 



Amateur Photography . 



PAGE 



Frontispiece 



.W.H.Wright 3 



...Robert P. Lowry 15 



Geo. D. Rice 17 



A.L. Vermilya 18 



J.E.Tylor 19 



• Frederic Bigelow 21 



.. Edith M. Church 22 



.Mary M. Caldwell 24 



Edward Bonnel 25 



A.N.Kilgore 27 



L.P.Gray 28 



W. H.Nelso"n 29 



J.A.Duffy 31 



Charley Apopka 33 



Emma G.Curtis 34 



E. L. Sabin 42 



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