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invented an excellent, though simple defender for the chest 

 (which he calls an " Anglesey/') and a large shawl handker- 

 chief may be worn over the collar. A pair of worsted wrist- 

 bands (sold by the name of " muffatees") should be worn with 

 cloth gloves, and, over all, a large and long pair of double 

 swan-skin cuffs' 



" But what signify all these flannels and Flushings shag 

 and swan-skin wads, water-boots, and Welsh wigs, to that 

 immortal garment invented by one Larry Rogers, who calls it 

 his ' sou' wester,' ' and gets it all for nine shillings/ of which 

 loquitur the Colonel 



" Now to the point ! ' Make, with an article called Russia- 

 duck, (which, as well as swan-skin, should be previously wetted 

 and dried, to prevent shrinking,) a loose over-all frock-coat, 

 and a hood or cap, with a flap behind, similar to a coal-heaver's 

 hat, and dress them as follows : 



" ' Take three quarts of linseed oil, and boil them till 

 reduced to two quarts and a half, the doing which will require 

 about three hours ; and when the oil is sufficiently boiled, it 

 will burn a feather. (The addition of some India rubber was 

 suggested to me, but of this I did not make a trial.) When 

 the oil is quite cold, take a clean paint brush, and work it well 

 into the outside of the whole apparel, and it will soon find its 

 way to the inside. 9 



" There is here a judicious and cautionary nota bene, 

 requesting the operator neither to burn himself nor the house 

 with an admission that the savour of the garment is abominable. 

 The Colonel concludes, that with ' a very large old umbrella, 

 fitted up with brown holland a bag full of straw, or something 

 of the kind, a pair of goggles, and a sufficient supply of Messrs. 

 Fribourg's mixture, the sportsman has all the necessary covering 

 that can be required for real wild-fowl shooting. 



" Nothing, indeed, can exceed the author's ingenuity, from 

 the construction of a hare pocket to making an old gun shoot 

 straight, and firing two pounds of shot to the best advantage. 

 Not that I would ambition being the operator in the latter 

 exploit, and would rather leave the affair to ' one Samuel 

 Singer, of Pool, who shoots with a gun, weight 141 Ibs. I* 

 Still the Colonel is a merry soul ; and provided with his 

 'pocket-nightingale/ I wish we had him here. He should 

 compound cold punch ad libitum t and receive the ceade fealteagh 

 of our highland hut. 



