IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



time for getting into your dry change — be- 

 fore the blood runs chilly. Make a new com- 

 mandment of it; nature will provide the 

 sanctions. But having attacked a broad 

 theme in topsyturvy fashion, I must now 

 strive for some kind of order in disorder by 

 suggesting the outfit you are about to dis- 

 card. Advices so far have only extended to 

 boots. Important as these are, it is to be 

 hoped that you have not been exposed to 

 discomfort through my delays in providing 

 a completer wardrobe. Accept this late 

 amends. 



Working clothes, either in summer or 

 winter, must be light; contrary to catholic 

 and apostolic doctrine I have no use for 

 woollen undergarments at any place or 

 season — even when sustaining the indoor 

 rigours of an Englisii winter. Warmth 

 resides alone in the non-conducting air, 

 which is imprisoned as effectively by 

 linen-mesh as wool. The former receives 

 perspiration more readily, and disperses it 

 more promptly. Parenthetically, you will 

 sufiFer less, thus garbed, in our over-heated 

 buildings, and colds will diminish or cease. 

 Linen, or a mixture of linen and cotton, 

 meets every requirement of night and day- 

 wear in the woods; — two suits of it when 

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