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of the trowsers should be leathered, on account of tlic hln;h 

 hedge banks. In some places these are from six to eight 

 feet high, and to jump down some scores of these in a day 

 adds to an already sufficient stock of fatigue. Therefore 

 the natives slide instead of jumping down, and, to avoid 

 being impaled by a chance stake, they make their trowsers 

 ^07?i6--p/'oo/ with, leather. Here, the game-bag carries all 

 things ; no jacket, w^ith labyrinths of pockets making the 

 inmate a perfect man of buckram, but a neat and effective 

 bag or carnassier. It is carried high up on the back, 

 where it sits easily and keeps the shoulders warm ; or if 

 the wind be in front, it can be brought round to the breast. 

 The worst part of the native productions for the sportsman 

 is the boot. Whoever comes to shoot in Britanny should 

 provide himself wdth several pairs of the strongest English 

 boots, each of which will wear out three pairs made in the 

 country. The leather is soft, and gives way speedily before 

 heavy work. 



There is a degree of jealousy of Englishmen in sporting 

 which is not difficult to explain. National feeling is doubt- 

 less one cause, and it is but natural to regard a strange 

 sportsman with dislike, when he is superior to ourselves, 

 and takes a full bag under our very noses where we can 

 only get a half one. But Englishmen have increased this 

 feeling by their conduct. Many o^ the residents are bad 

 specimens, who have left England for their country's good ; 

 and others are pugnacious, and push their nationality to 

 excess on purpose to beard the " Crapauds.'' One gentleman 

 near this place was the terror of the whole country. He 

 half killed a garde de chasse, was had up and fined, paid the 



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