RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1903, by G. O. Shield s 

 A Montnly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



#1.00 A Year. 



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G. O. SHIELDS (COQUIXA), 

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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER page 



With a Little Coaxing She Brought in Her Bird Frontispiece 



Nellie's First Bird. Illustrated Carl Churchill 201 



A Monarch's Fall. Poem P. Q . Loring 202 



The American Natural History, Illustrated G. O. Shields 205 



The Song of the 'Possum. Pcem. F. H. Mlloon, Jr. 212 



Log Rafting on the Su-quehanna Edwin Barthold 213 



The Biggest One Got Away W.L.Lloyd 215 



The Brant. Illustrated Allan Brooks 217 



Song of the Sportsman. Poem. Illustrated Pierre Soule 218 



An Incident in Mountain Fishing James R. Watson 221 



To a Wild Duck. Poem James R. Watson 223 



Estahlishing His Position A.A.E. 223 



He Give His Last Cent Moses Thompson, Jr. 226 



The Amateur Trappers. No. I • Charlie Apcpka 231 



The Shootin' Match at Dad's. Poem W. P . C had wick 233 



On the Range With a Ranch Foreman H. L. Suydam 234 



A Night in the Woods Roxbury 235 



Camp Coquina Harriet Smith 237 



Huntin' Time. Poem Dr. R. S. Tuttle 238 



From the Game Fields 239 Forestry — 257 



Fish and Fishing 244 Pure and Impure Foods. 259 



Guns and Ammunition 247 Book Notices — 261 



Natural History 251 



The League of American Sportsmen 253 



Automohile Notes 255 



Publisher's Not es 262 



Editor's Corner 264 



Amateur Photography 270 



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



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