RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1899, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 A Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



PAGE 



" The Bottom wai not Where it Seemed." Frontispiece 



A Summer Lake. Illustrated FrankCReed 85 



In the Adirondaoks. Illustrated Dr. J. C. Gifford 88 



The Professor and the Land Owner E.J. Myers 89 



Bufflehead, Charitonetta Albeola. Illustrated Allan Brooks 95 



Where to Go John Boyd 97 



In the Haunts of the Gods. Poem — Sarah D. Hobart ioi 



Protection of Forests and Game. Illustrated S. N. Leek 102 



A Squirrel Hunt D. L. Ingalls 105 



Specification for a Log House. Illustrated H, C. Wicks, Architect 106 



Where the Woodhine Twineth. illustrated E. A. Midgley 108 



An Angler's Paradise. Poem. Illustrated E. B. Giddings 108 



Captured hut not Subdued. Illustrated V. S. Veasey 108 



Our Valley. Illustrated A. A. Field 109 



Swan River, Mont. Illustrated M.J. Elrod 112 



My First Two-Pounder. Po c m. Illustrated J.R.Howe 113 



Is This a Record Breaker. Illustrated u 4 



A Letter from General Bell 115 



A Panacea. Poem u 5 



Full Text of the Lacey Bird Law 116 



A Plea for Indolence Arthur F. Rice 117 



A Tragedy. Poem II9 



Another Congressman on Bird Protection • 120 



Captain Kelly in the Philippines — 121 



From the Game Fields 123 



Fish and Fishing 132 



Guns and Ammunition 138 



Natural History J 42 



The League of American Sportsmen m 6 



Forestry 150 



Pure and Impure Foods 152 



Editor's Corner 1.4 



Publisher's Notes «55 



Amateur Photography 159 



BookNotioeS xxxviii 



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



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