WATER BOOTS. 



other, boot, you will immediately remedy the inconvenience b) 

 applying a piece of gold-beaters' skin, and over that a little court 

 plaster, in order doubly to defend the part. But even in this 

 trifle there is a right and a wrong way of going to work. Instead 

 of cutting with scissors, and merely wetting the plaster, let it be 

 for a moment heated by thejire, as well as wetted, being previously 

 stamped with a wadding-punch, by which means, from having no 

 angles, or corners, it will stick as fast as your own skin ; pro- 

 vided that, when on and dry, you put over it a little cold cream, 

 or any kind of grease, in order to repel the damp. 



The application that has been usually recommended to me by 

 surgeons is diachylon-plaster, which, in cold weather, curls up, 

 and torments you so much in walking, that you soon become lame 

 again, and then wish the doctor at Jericho. Go to Godfrey's, or 

 some other first-rate chemist, in order to get the sticking plaster 

 in perfection, as many a one has poisoned his skin by not having 

 the genuine article. 



