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ninepence, and sometimes only sixpence. At the first-class inns 

 they will make you pay well in one way or another. Where we 

 did not dine we have been charged threepence each for the use 

 of the public room, that is to say, for sitting in it instead of out- 

 of-doors or in our rooms, while waiting for tea to be prepared. 

 With regard to servants, the best way is to ask the landlord to 

 pay them and charge it in the bill. It relieves you of a great 

 annoyance, and in such cases we never found the charge added 

 extravagant. 



Equipment. Shoes can be obtained much cheaper in England 

 than America, and, indeed, first-rate shoes are hardly to be had 

 in America ; but English shoes, that you would have to buy at 

 the shops, always have a seam across the instep that is very hard 

 upon a foot unaccustomed to it ; and for this reason, and to insure 

 a shape to suit you, you had best get them made at home. The 

 leather should be well-tanned and dressed thick kip or cowhide, 

 the best than can be procured; the soles of "English bend," 

 three-eights of an inch in thickness; double this in the heel, 

 which should come so far forward that the break will be perpen- 

 dicular with the point of the ankle. Give your order, if possible, 

 six months beforehand (I never have known a shoemaker who 

 would get his work done when he promised for any considera- 

 tion), and go to the workman yourself to make sure that he un- 

 derstands what you want, otherwise you will probably receive, 

 just as you are going on board ship, a parcel by express contain- 

 ing a pair of butterfly pumps. Have a distinct agreement that 

 they shall be returned if they do not come in time, and if they 

 do not answer to your order. They should be high enough (6| 

 inches, including heel, commonly) to well cover the ankle, and 

 lace up with but two crossings over the instep. The laces must 

 be made of the best leather, and you should carry half-a-dozen 

 spare ones. 



If, finally, the shoes are not large enough to go easily over 

 two woolen socks on your foot, reject them. Get shaker woolen 

 socks of an exact fit to your foot, or as large as they may be with- 

 out danger of folding or rubbing into welts under your shoes. 

 Wear them with the "wrong side" outward. You do not want 

 to wear them double, but your feet will swell so in a long hot 

 day's walk, that you will want that there should have been room 

 enough in your shoes for them to be double before you started. 

 Break your shoes in on the passage. 



Gaiters are w r orn to protect the feet from dust and gravel com- 



