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warm, and I think where there is exercise, as 

 in snipe-shooting, they may be used without 

 any bad effects. But I advise no one to stand 

 still (which an angler must do sometimes) in 

 the water, even with these ingenious water- 

 proof inventions. All anglers should remem- 

 ber old Boerhaave's maxims of health, and 

 act upon them : — '• Keep the feet warm, the 

 head cool, and the body open." 



Phys. — I am sorry we did not examine 

 more minutely the weight and size of the fish 

 we caught, and compare the anatomy of the 

 salmon and the sea trout ; but we were in too 

 gi'eat a hurry to see them on the table, and 

 our philosophy yielded to our hunger. 



Hal. — We shall have plenty of oppor- 

 tunities for this examination; and we can now 

 walk down to the fishing house, and see pro- 

 bably half a hundred fish of cHfferent sizes, 

 that have been taken in the cruives this even- 

 ing, and examine them at our leisure. 



All. — Let us go ! 



