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RECREATION 



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

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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



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We Called an Indian Danoe Frontispiece 



Snow Shoeing in the Sierra Nevadas B. P. Noland 347 



Possums Gwinter Eat Mighty Good. Poem Plummer F. Jones 348 



Teddy. Poem. Illustrated by Eileen K. Hood Ivan Swift 349 



Up a Tree Illustrated J. A. Loring 351 



Green River. Poem W.C.Lewis 352 



A Warning to Florida. Illustrated ' C. C. Curtis, Ph.D. 353 



Lost in a Georgia Swamp J. S. Johnson, Jr. 357 



A Christmas Hunt. Illustrated Elmer E. Davis 359 



The Heroes of the Night. Poem A. M. Bowman 361 



Where the Unexpected Happened - Lester C Remsen 364 



Do Grizzlies Eat Guns ? Illustrated A. H. Dunham 373 



White Goats in Domestication. Illustrated R. A. Fr aser 376 



From the Game Fields 377 



Fish and Fishing 383 



Guns and Ammunition 386 



Natural History 392 



The League of American Sportsmen 395 



Automobile Notes 399 



Forestry — 401 



Pure and Impure Foods 403 



Book Notices 405 



Publisher's Notes 4°6 



Editor's Corner 408 



Amateur Photography 4*2 



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