RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1904, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



J1.00 a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER page 



He Saw a Big Bear with a Pig in Its Arm Frontispiece 



A Black Bear and a White Swede Frank Mossman 



How a Mexican Was Turned Back. Illustrated Arizona Ranger 



He Loved the Woods. Poem Stacy E. Baker 



On Top of Mount Shasta. Illustrated — . A.L. A. Himmelwright 



After Moose in Ontario D . R. Tucker 



An Ideal Game Preserve. Illustrated G. O. Shields 



Contrasts. Poem CO. Woodmansee 



A Beminiscence of the Old Dominion R. G. Kinnier 



A Plain Tale of the Woods , F. A. Verplanck 



A New Year's Call E. H. Blood 



The Bears' Picnic. Poem Geo. A. Williams. M. D. 



Not So Hard As It Looks. Illustrated R. D. Von Nieda 



Roast Pork. Poem E. L. Taylor 



Some Other Dog3 Della Bellamy 



Reflections. Poem Dan W. Gallagher 



Antoine's Hen Speculation E.W. Parker 



The Amateur Trappers. II Charley Apopka 



Old Man Stice's Experience with the Bear W. F, Short, Jr. 



A Colorado Paradise L. D. Gilmore 



From the Game Fields 36 Forestry — 57 



Fish and Fishing 42 Pureand ImpureFoods 59 



2S 

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 2S 

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3* 

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70 



Guns and Ammunition 45 



Natural History 50 



The League of American Sportsmen 53 



Automobile Notes 55 



Book Notices 61 



Publisher's Notes 63 



Editor's Corner 65 



Amateur Photography 72. 



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



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