Vol. XXII 



Number 5 



RECREATION 



A Monthly Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



Dan Beard, Editor 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 



TEN CENTS A COPY 



CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1905 



Cover Design .... 

 Sailed Forth in Search of Game 

 Nesls, Nesling and Nestlings 



Illustrated 



Severe Straits . 



Why the Gibson Boys Hid Out 



Illustrated by Roy Martel Mason 



A Fight to the Finish 



Illustrated by Conde 



The Fairies 



When the Lines Run Free 



To Him Who Waits 



Trouble and a Fish 



A Canandaigua Whopper 



A Mountain Tragedy 



Drawings by Bellmore Brown 



Near to Nature's Heart . 



Photographic Study by Laurence C. Rz 



A Message 



The Trail of the Cavaliers 



Drawings by the Writer and Alden Pi< 



How to Start a Balanced Aquarium 



Illustrated from photographs by the Writer 



Canoeing on the Delaware 



Illustrated 



The Marsh . 



Illustrated by the Writer 



Comrade of Old 

 Automobile Notes . 

 Delights of Archery 

 Sun Gunshots 

 Editorial Wanderings 



Guns and Ammunition 

 Letters from Our Readers 

 College Athletics 



dall 



and Charles Livingston B 



and Drawings by G. Ryder 



ull 



Lynn Bogue Hunt 



Frontispiece 

 C. William Beebee 



Norman Jeffries 

 Allen Kelly 



E. G. Chupney 



Floyd Parker Wagaman 



Burley D'Pere 

 Charles K. Young 

 Louis F. Drake 



G. D. Warren 



Irene Pomeroy Shields 

 Lee Woodward Zeigler 



L. B. Spencer 



Ralph K. Wing 



Walter K. Stone 



Stacy E. Baker 

 Willard Nixon 



Dan Beard 



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American Tennis ..... 



Hints About Salmon Fishing Chas. A. Bramble 428 



Dan Beard and the Boys . . . 432 



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 



Copyrighted, 1905, by Wm. E. Annis 



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



