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. 



23 West 24TH Street, 



New York 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



PAGE 



Dinner for Four •" Frontispiece 



The Bear was Safe 0. F. Lambertson. 331 



Hunting Big Game in New Brunswick. Illustrated John S. McIntire. 332 



How Spider Went to Supper. Illustrated W. T. Adderley. 335 



Photographing a Cyclone. Illustrated 337 



The Best Part of California. Illustrated Charles Scholting. 338 



Chrysanthemum. Poem Beatrice Sturges. 339 



Hunting Goats with a Camera. Illustrated H. Carry. 341 



The Runaways. Poem Fran k Farrington . 



A Day on a Wisconsin Lake. Illustrated Henry W. Read. 



A Deer Hunt in Wattenwye. Illustrated John Boyd. 



Them Fences. Poem Ann a B. Patten . 



A Minnesota Bass. Illustrated E. W. Nettleton. 



A Ride with the Regulars in Wyoming Red C ross. 



Not One Got Away-. E. W. Huckins. 



A Penobscot Bear P.P. Beal. 



Characteristics of the Sportsman Rupe Barmby. 



From the Game Fields 361 



Fishand Fishing 371 



Guns and Ammunition 374 



Natural History 381 



The League of American Sportsmen 386 



Amateur Photography 



342 

 343 

 345 

 347 

 349 

 35i 

 353 

 355 

 357 



Forestry 390 



Pure and Impure Foods 393 



Book Notices * 395 



Editor's Corner 397 



Publisher's Notes 4»o 



405 



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