Vol. XXII 



Number 3 



RECREATION 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



Dan Beard, Editor 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 



TEN CENTS A COPY 



CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1905 



Our New Editor, Dan Beard 



Publishers' Announcement 



Roping Wild Hogs in Texas 



The Call of Spring. A series of eight 



The Camp Fire 



Striped Bass in the Susquehanna 



The Tragedy of Tiger 



Solid Comfort in Old Washington 



An Antelope's Battle for Her Fawn 



After Duck on Pamlico Sound 



Where Joy Returns 



Kindly Reminiscence 



Drawing by Roy Martell Mason 



Raindrops 



A Midsummer Misadventure 

 Walks Afield :. . . 



The Cruise of the " Hobo " 



With photographs by the writer 



Pure and Impure Foods 



Death of Bud Moose— His Story 



An Animated Sandhill and an Albino Deer 



W. H. Stevens 200 



Little Dwellers Behind the Fence 202 



The Birds of the City. Illustrated. C.M.Story 203 



The American Merganser 205 



With drawing by Allan Brooks 



A Saddle Song .... H. P. Dickinson 206 



Automobile Notes Edited by Willard Nixon 207 



Illustrated 



Sun Gunshots for the Sportsman-Photographer . 21 1 



Illustrated 



And you wonder why your dog has rheumatism 2 1 7 



photograph 



A. McCampbell 



W.C.Ludlow 

 Hobart Clarkson 

 William J. Lampton 

 Stanley H. Hopper 

 Howard Eaton 

 Alexander Hunter 



Frontispiece 

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Irene Pomeroy Shields 174 



Dudley Rushon 



175 



• . Agnes L. Hughes 1 76 



. Mrs. Jos. S. Gibbs 177 



. , Chas. Francis Saunders 184 



. . E. C. Hamilton 187 



. C. F. Langworthy, Ph.D. 195 



. H. B. Brown 196 



The Thief who came in the Night . . S.I. 219 



Witb drawing by W. H, Shindler 

 A Novel Trip Down the Mountains 



Celestine Cummings 219 



Can the Eye Follow a Bullet's Flight ? . . . 200 



The Comedians of the Woods 221 



Drawing by Ernest Thompson-Seton 



An Uncomfortable Situation 222 



Drawing by Roy Martell Mason 



Letters from Our Readers 223 



The Amateur Trappers. . Charley Apopka 230 



Editorial Wanderings . . . Dan Beard 234 



The contents of this magazine are copyrighted and must not be reprinted without permission. 



Published by WM. E. ANNIS, 23 West Twenty-fourth Street, New York 



Entered at the New York Post-office as Second Class Mattel 



