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I have never found anything better than the Hannaford 

 ventilated rubber boot, with rubber lining. If this boot gets 

 wet inside, either from perspiration or from getting beyond 

 your depth in water, take it off, pour out the water, and in a 

 few minutes the boot will be dry again, and your socks and 

 trousers are not dyed red, green or blue, as they would have 

 been if the boot had been lined with felt of either color. 



When the upper portion of the leg of the boot is not 

 needed for wading, turn it down clear to the foot, then turn 

 it and bring the upper edge to the top of the stiffened por- 

 tion of the boot-leg. The lower end of the fold will now be 

 midway between the knee and the foot. Give this two turns 

 upward, and you have the surplus material neatly reefed in, 

 just below the knee, where it will stay a week if desired, and 

 give little trouble by catching on brush or other obstructions. 



Felt boots are a favorite with lumbermen for winter-wear, 

 and, with rubber shoes over them, make a comfortable foot- 

 gear for extremely cold weather. Rubber wading-trousers 

 and wading-stockings are good in fishing-waters, where there 

 is little walking to do on dry land; but where there is much 

 of this to do, they make the wearer uncomfortable because 

 of the lack of proper ventilation. After walking a few 

 hundred yards in them, either through woods or fields, in 

 hot weather (and the weather is usually hot when men go 

 Trouting) you will get so hot that you will wish you had 

 never seen the pesky breeches, and that you had worn simply 

 a pair of hip rubber boots. If the water be too deep for hip- 

 boots, I prefer to wear simply a pair of old leather shoes, and 

 to get wet; for if one be dressed wholly in heavy woolen 

 clothing there is little danger of any serious results from 

 getting wet. 



For dry weather and dry land, winter or summer, in the 

 woods, in the mountains or on the prairies, the most com- 

 fortable and serviceable of all foot-gear is a pair of heavy 

 buckskin moccasins. It is the most natural, reasonable, per- 



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