RECREATION 



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

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



'i. 00 a Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



I Strung Them on the Barrel of My Gun and Started for the Boat 



A Goose Hunt on the Bio Grande. Illustrated 



The North Woods. Poem 



Duck Shooting on the St. Lawrence 



Leaves from a Trapper's Note Book. Illustrated 



The Architecture of a Beaver Dam 



Shoot'n Time. Poem 



Eccentricities of the Beaver 



Fox Hunting in New England 



Harlequin Duck. Illustrated 



From Turkeys to Quails 



Stice's Christmas Turkey 



Kitchi Gi-os-se Waw-be An-ne We-og 



A White Rabbit Hunt 



Winter. Poem 



Antoineon Ice - 



How I K.lled My Boar 



In the Big Woods 



Recollections of Burma 



At Long Range 



A Vacation. An Idyl , 



From the Game Fields 445 



Fish and Fishing 45 1 



Guns and Ammunition — 455 



Natural History 461 



The League of American Sportsmen 464 



Forestry 



Pure and Impure Foods- 



Publisher's Notes 



Editor's Corner 



Amateur Photography-. 



P1AGE. 



Frontispiece 



S.B.Gillett 413 



.W. M. Bryan, M.D. 414 



.Ashley D. Conger 415 



A.T. Bickford 417 



..Frank R, Grover 419 



.. .Thomas Jackson 420 



a. w hitehead 421 



...Ernest Russell 424 

 Allan Brooks 428 



T. H. Frazer 429 



W. F. Short, Jr. 430 



— Simon Pokagon 431 



A. C Todd 432 



Ira Sweet 435 



E.W.Parker 436 



..D.J. M'Gillivray 437 



H. S. Bull 439 



H.T.Davies 441 



Albert W. Davies 443 



C. C. Haskinsxxiv 



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