100 BOAT-DRESS FOR BAD WEATHER. [PART I. 



sufficiently large to enable you to put the skirts 

 of your shooting-coat bodily into them, by which 

 means, while you have access to your upper pock- 

 ets, the lower ones will be kept dry and you will 

 be perfectly impermeable to wet, there being no- 

 thing about you to catch the rain. 



The overalls are most useful at all times in 

 sea-fishing, as they afford complete protection fore 

 and aft, and enable you to haul in line and fish 

 without getting your knees wet, as well as to sit 

 down in comfort wherever you please, no matter 

 what the state of the boat may be. 



Of course it does not much matter for boat- 

 work what the length of the cape is. I mention 

 thirty inches, because I have found such a one 

 most useful on shore, as well as on the water, for 

 shooting of all kinds, or other fishing. If you have 

 no one at hand to carry it when not wanted, its 

 weight is but little felt in your inner coat-pocket, 

 or, what is better, it can be rolled up and fastened 

 by a couple of little straps or strings to the strap 

 of your shot-bag or fishing-basket, in which posi- 

 tion you are really scarcely sensible of its presence. 

 It will save you many a wet jacket, and the annoy- 

 ance of getting all the things in your pockets 

 drenched and perhaps spoiled. I scarcely know 



