22 WADING THE TROUT STREAM. 



wherefore should you wade? They were made 

 of solid India rubber ; but there is not another 

 pair like them to be bought in the kingdom. In 

 the Strand they make them also of solid sheet 

 Indian rubber, but the price, alas ! is five guineas, 

 which is the only thing against them, for they 

 would last, I believe, for ever ; besides being so 

 perfectly impervious to the wet, as to keep the 

 angler in comfort and health ; although his only 

 success may oftentimes be sought and found as 

 here depicted, by <( wading the trout stream," 



