RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1903, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



J1.00 A Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



23 West 24TH Street, 



New York 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



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There We Were, Perched Like 2 Monkeys, on the Back of the Buggy Seat Frontispiece 



A Treacherous Ferry.,... W W. Bridgers 



A Big One That Did Not Get Away H. B. Landgraf 



Blackpad, the Leader of the V. Illustrated E. C. Allen 



Canoeing in Georgian Bay G. H. Hodgetts 



King's Ex. Poem : Edwin L. Sabin 



A Bald-Faced Grizzly and Three Others G. B. McClellan 



How Some Tenderfeet Hunt Bear. Illustrated Frank Seaman 



A Prairie Life. Illustrated Hattie Washburn 



A Cruise That Began E. D. H. 



The Rustic's Complaint. Poem H. P. Van Arsdale 



Ptarmigan Shooting in the Yukon Delta Fred. G. Park 



Camping in the Adirondacks • Sycamore 



Fisherman's Luck. Poem Frederick O. Martin 



Our Annual Camping Trip... Alfred C Fox 



No Damages Assessed John C. McNeill 



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From the Game Fields 99 



Fish and Fishing 105 



Guns and Ammunition • 109 



Natural History ...- 113 



The League of American Sportsmen 116 



Forestry 118 



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Pure and Impure Foods 120 



Book Notices . 122 



Puhlisher's Notes $...-. 123 



Editor's Corner 125 



Amateur Photography 130 



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