RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1899, 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. 



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New York. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



PAGE 



A Stroke that Tumbled Him Down the Mountain Frontispiece 



Depredations of a Mountain Lion. Illustrated G. T. McCullough, M.D. 249 



Uncle Remus' Possum. Poem A. L. Vermilya. 



Photographing Without a Camera. Illustrated A. K. Boyles. 



A Deafened Doe H. T.Gray. 



Kyaks of the Esquimo. Illustrated H. H. Hickock, U. S. A. 



Bob White E. J. Myers. 



The Amerioan Widgeon, or Baldpate. Anas Americana. Illustrated Sidney Williams. 



Hunting Elk with one Lung Dr. C. W. Lombard. 



The Devil an Angler Would Be. Poem. Illustrated. R. S. Stringfellovv. 



Daniel Boone and Game Protection Mary T. Earle. 



The Mourning Dove W. H. Nelson. 



An Accommodating Bear. Illustrated 



One Way to Get Information J. W. B. Mannion, U.S.A. 



Townsend's Chipmunk. Tamias Townsendt. Illustrated Allan Brooks. 



The Editor's Reward Myra Emmons. 



Duck Shooting on the Great South Bay F. M.Cushing. 



In the San Juan Country. Illustrated Dr. C.C.Curtis. 



The Tale of a Frog. Illustrated G. J.Varney. 



A Retrospect J . Lovering. 



When Father Carves T. S. Pemberton. 



How the Other 999 Shirk G.O.S. 



Costly Millinery - '. Mary A. Thomson. 



From the Game Fields 284 



Fish and Fishing 294 



Guns and Ammunition 299 



Natural History 305 



The League of American Sportsmen 309 



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Forestry 315 



Pure and Impure Foods 317 



Editor's Corner ... 319 



Amateur Photography -•• 323 



Publisher's Notes xxxi 



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



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