RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1901, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



*ioo a Year. G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 23 West 24TH Street, 



10 Cents a Copy. Editor and Manager. New York 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



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That Is the Worst Cat I Ever Saw Frontispiece. 



Boneparte; A True Friend. Illustrated.. John N. Cole. 3 



Two Pictures. Poem A. L. Vermilya. 4 



A Coon Hunt in a Canadian Forest O. M. Arnold. 6 



The Voice of the Hills. Poem Rev. R. S. Stringfellow. 7 



Where the Bighorn Roams. Illustrated W. B.Lee. 9 



A Mountain Tragedy A. L. Vermilya. 13 



How We Lost Our Mules. Illustrated Nelson Yarn all. 15 



The True Story of Daddy Binks Ernest Seton. 19 



Madame Woodcock at Home. Illustrated Homer G. Gosney. 20 



A Winter Cruise in Northern Maine. Illustrated Carroll Barker. 2" 



Reveries. Poem Arthur Hazleton. 22 



A Strange Incident W. H. Nelson. 24 



Will a Bull Moose Fight? Dr. A. C. Shoemaker. 25 



They Will Return. Poem Rev. F. C. Cowper. 26 



Hunting in the Arctic Rockies A. J. Stone. 27 



Tiger Hunting in India- C. E. Ashburner. 29 



The Grizzly I Did Not Kill C. M. Coleman. 74 



From the Game Fields 33 



Fish and Fishing 45 



Guns and Ammunition 49 



Natural History 54 



The League of American Sportsmen 58 



Forestry 64 



Pure and Impure Food 67 



Book Notices 69 



Editor's Corner 7° 



Publisher's Notes 72 



Amateur Photography 77 



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



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