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from the extremities of the peaks, a lappet, one 

 furnished with a loop, the other with a button, and 

 made long enough just to fasten over the head, or 

 under the chin, at pleasure, forming in the latter 

 position a covering for the ears, which those who 

 have, when after deer, lain for hours on the hill- 

 side, waiting for the mist to clear off, will readily 

 appreciate. It should be made, I need hardly say, 

 of some unobtrusive-coloured woollen stuff. 



It is a remarkable fact, that, although you may 

 have put by your old gloves in pairs against the 

 next shooting-season, you will not unfrequently 

 find your stock, when you come to use them, to 

 consist almost entirely of left-hand gloves. Whe- 

 ther this may arise from the fact that housemaids 

 generally clean the grates with the right hand, and 

 like to keep that clean also, we need not inquire ; 

 I would only suggest to any one who may find 

 himself with two odd gloves in his pocket, not to 

 " cuss and swear/' but just turn one of them inside 

 out, when he will have a pair that will do to shoot 

 in, at any rate. 



Judging from the miserable failures which con- 

 stantly offend the eye, it would appear that the 

 art of stuffing fish is one in which it is very 

 difficult to attain to a result at all approaching 



