RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1898, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



£1.00 a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



19 West 24TH Street, 



New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER Page 



' ' Every minute or so I hit him with my hat to urge him on " Frontispiece 



A Race with a Bull Elk. Illustrated Capt. S. A. Lawson 



Shall We Have Bird Days ? Dr. G. A. Mack 



Two Philippine Buffaloes. Illustrated W. T. Hornaday 



Ku-Go-Ge, the Wild Goose Chief Po-Ka-Gon 



Our Alaskan Exploring Expedition. The Liard River Region — A. J. Stone 



Smoke from Our Camp Fire. Illustrated G. O. S. 



Carl Rungius, Animal Painter W. T. Hornaday 



How I Lost My Boa Constrictor E. J. Randall 



Pike Fishing Rev. Wm. Mitchell 



Wudukisher and Her Lover. Poem Frank Farner 



Ramblings in the Dismal Swamp S. A. Lewis 



A Poetic Exchange of Compliments 



In the Woods of Androscoggin , J. T. Monroe 



The Ignominious Capture of a King S. H. Kirkbride 



Notes on Loons. Illustrated J. H. Hicks 



How Some States Protect Game A. E. Pond 



The Osculationist. Poem Nixon Waterman 



From the Game Fields 



Fish and Fishing 



Guns and Ammunition 



Natural History 



The League of American Sportsmen. 



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College Athletics 



Publisher's Department. 



Book Notices 



Amateur Photography . . . 



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