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possess an undue preponderance of " second chest," 

 for they are best calculated to set off the rotundity 

 of the figure ; and it is also a generally accepted 

 rule amongst hunting men, that the more roomy the 

 saddle required by the occupant so much propor- 

 tionately shorter should the tails of his coat be. 



We will presume that you are hunting in scarlet, 

 and that the gilded buttons of your coat have your 

 raised monogram artistically displayed upon them. 

 The man who is happy enough to possess an H 

 amongst his initials (though he ma}' be incapable of 

 using it in elocution), should, above all things, see 

 that it is brought into due prominence, as, by doing 

 so, he may possibly pass as an influential supporter 

 of some distant pack. 



Vests are immaterial as to color, but sportsmen of 

 quiet tastes cannot perhaps select a neater pattern 

 than horizontal bars of gold and black, at least four 

 inches wide, and somewhat closely resembling the 

 magnified carcase of a hornet. Breeches are cut in 

 different ways, and worn in different fashions, and 

 vary in material from the stylish buckskin, which, 

 when cleaned, may assume a sky-blue hue, to the 

 humbler Chipping Norton cloth. Some old-fashioned 

 and particular persons display only, and always, four 

 buttons on the outside of either leg, immediately 

 between the top of the boot and the knee cap, and 



