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



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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A Feathered Hunter. Illustrated L. B. Storer 413 



A Bear and a Caribou- Illustrated Greenhorn 415 



A Mountain Lullaby. Poem Hattie H. Louthan 417 



Partridge Shooting in India C. E. Ashburner 418 



One Dolly Varden. Illustrated Louis Akin 419 



The Foundling. Poem Rev. E. L. Tiffany 420 



Canoeing on the Michigamme C. E. Berry 421 



June Days on the TJpper Pecos. Illustrated Edward G. Taylor 423 



The 01' Mill Pond. Poem George W. Slawson 427 



A Trip to the Olympics W. S. Jones 428 



Spring Voices. Poem A. M'Elrath 430 



Held Up By Moonshiners J.E.Allen 431 



Fishin' In De Ole Maine Woods. Poem. Illustrated Edward Bourne 434 



What Becomes of the Horns? Illustrated M. A.Wilcox 436 



Winter Blooming Huckleberry. Illustrated C. E. Pleas 437 



When the Perch Begin t' Bite. Poem W. M.Schultz 437 



Sheep or Goat? Illustrated Frank Melvin 438 



A Prominent Game Protectionist. Illustrated — 439 



The Fiery Grotto. Poem Dr. L. E. Holmes 439 



From the Game Fields 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition 



Natural History 



The League of American Sportsmen 



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Forestry 473 



Pure and Impure Foods 475 



Book Notices.-- 478 



Publisher's Notes 479 



Editor's Corner 480 



Amateur Photography 485 



Entered as Second-Class Matter at New York Post-OLice, Oct. 17, il 



Elephant killed by Mr. Marcel Hendricks of Mossamedes, Africa, with a .303 Savage Rifle rising the Expanding Bullet. 

 Dlnstre " contains an article with illustrations by Mr. Hendricks relative to the killing of the above. 



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