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is quite warm enough for all kinds of sport, even in the coldest 

 weather, provided we are in motion. 



A coat made of this material is rather warm and heavy for late 

 snipe-shooting or cock-shooting, as the texture of the cloth is so 

 very close that it will hardly permit of the passage of the insen- 

 sible perspiration from the body. For this latter kind of work we 

 prefer a brown linen coat. 



A fustian coat has an important advantage over all kinds of 

 woollen articles, that it does not offer a harbor for moths during 

 the idle season; and, moreover, having very little or no nap, it 

 neither catches the briers so easily nor gets torn by the twigs or 

 thorns. 



We never had but one woollen shooting-coat ; and that was fairly 

 torn to pieces in one season, and the remnants eaten up the follow- 

 ing summer by the moths. 



The pants and vest should all be made of the same material, 

 and have a sufficient quantity of pockets for all purposes. Our 

 suit contains sixteen pockets, and we find them all more or less 

 useful. The cap had likewise better be made of fustian : it will 

 prove warm, strong, and in a measure water-proof; it should 

 have a large front to protect the eyes, and a back to put down 

 at pleasure, to turn the rain off from the neck and shoulders. 

 A cap made after this style is called by the cap-makers the 

 I^apoleon cap. 



The cap we use has no lining in it, and we find it quite warm 

 enough without it for most kinds of shooting; if the weather, 

 however, is very cold and boisterous during wild-fowl shooting, wo 

 place a quilted lining in the crown, which makes it as comfortable 

 as need be. The fustian coat will not answer for wild-fowl shoot- 

 ing, as it is not sufficiently warm. Nothing but wool will do for 

 this purpose, — to preserve which, in the summer season, from the 

 annoying attacks of the moths, is no small affair ; however, we 

 will try to put our readers in a way effectually to defy the efforts 

 of these little torments. 



A bag sufficiently large to hold all the woollen shooting-clothes 



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