RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1902, by G. O. Shields 

 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER PAGE 



4< The captive moose is left wretchedly to drag out its life'' Frontispiece 



Moose Snaring in Nova Scotia. Illustrated Ernest Russell 3 



0' Winter Nights. Poem Hilton R. Greer 6 



Facts About the Beavtr. Illustrated R. C. W. Lett 7 



Beaver Trapping J . A. Newton 9 



A Successful Fishing Trip F. Hibbard n 



A Girls' Boat Club. Illustrated Laura VVescott 13 



A Holiday Hunt J. O. Lander 15 



Round the Camp Fire. Poem A. L. Vermilya 17 



Tyee Salmon in Puget Sound. Illustrated J.H.Bowles 19 



A Florida Kid on a Camp Hunt Charley Apopka. 21 



Among the Water Fowl. Illustrated Editor 23 



A fcallad of the Future. Poem A. L. Vermilya 25 



The White Go it in Alaska E. W. Shaw 28 



Curiosities of Ecuador. Illustrated Dr. S A. Davis 30 



Signs of a Cold Winter Adirondack Jim 31 



Bass Fishing in August J- A. Newton 70 



From the Game Fields 33 



Fish and Fishing 41 



Guns and Ammunition 45 



Natural History 5 1 



The League of American Sportsmen 55 



Forestry 59 



Pure and Impure Foods °i 



Book Notices C4 



Publisher's Notes 65 



Editor's Corner 67 



Amateur Photography 74 



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



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