RECREATION 



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



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



Si. 00 a Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER PAGB 



' ' Truly he was a monarch of the barren grounds " Frontispiece 



The Big Caribou. Illustrated James Turnbull 163 



Angling for Wild Turkeys. Illustrated - E. E. Hickok 165 



A Novel Fishing Reel E. M. Leete 169 



We Quit When We Got Enough Pemigewasset 171 



Big Sam, the Stage Driver Major Philip Reade, U. S. A. 173 



A Trip with the Wrong Gun VV. F. Nichols 175 



The Mallard. Illustrated Allan Brooks 177 



How I Missed Her Charles G. Poole 178 



A Four Legged Indian \V. F. Nichols 180 



Elk in Jackson's Hole. Illustrated S. N. Leek 181 



Liard River Experiences A. J . Stone 183 



Applied Zoology Elizabeth Barton Pitman 185 



A Day at Stump Pass ...J. H. Morse 187 



With the Grayling in England S. Howarth 189 



By Australian Camp-Fires Robert E. Deane 191 



The Coyote. Poem. Illustrated Harry H. Dunn 192 



The Boot on the Other Foot Major H. Romeyn, U. S. A. 193 



Smoke from Our Camp-Fire G. O. S. 234 



From the Game Fields 194 | The League of American Sportsmen 224 



Fish and Fishing 207 College Athletics 227 



Guns and Ammunition 212 I Editor's Corner 236 



Natural History 217 j Amateur Photography 239 



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