RECREATION 



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



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



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He Was Uttering His Weird Call in Tones as Inspiring and as Musical as the Notes 



of a Flute Frontispiece 



Hunting Elk in a Windfall. Illustrated E. B. Shanks 167 



Some Feathered Folk. Illustrated Martha M. Williams 



A Deer Hunt in Mexioo J. K. Eichhorn 



Rafting- on the St. Joe. Illustrated Geo. H. Root 



Catching a Catfish. Illustrated F. D. Greene 



Boh White. Poem Ira Sweet 



Quail Shooting in Kentucky A. S. Atkinson 



A Leaf from the Log of the Rosamond. Illustrated • Chas. Van Brunt, Jr. 



Among the Sandhills John McNeil 



Hadn't Lost Any Bear Boyd C. Packer 



Jock o' the Gun. Poem Dorothy H. Barron 



A Florida Kid on a Camp Hunt. XII 



Our Trophies 



From the Game Fields 197 



Fish and Fishing 206 



Guns and Ammunition 211 



Natural History 217 



The League of Amerioan Sportsmen 223 



Forestry 226 



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



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Charley Apopka 



G. A. Mack 



Pure and Impure Foods 229 



Book Notices 231 



Publisher's Notes 233 



Editor's Corner 234 



Amateur Photography 238 



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