IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



barred therefore from a light pack; yet it is 

 of great advantage to have a coat that will 

 turn a shower and still is pervious to mois- 

 ture from within. So high an authority 

 as Stewart Edward White is for rejecting 

 a coat altogether. Might his opinion not 

 be revised in favour of a garment that was 

 light, of a texture that would not tear or 

 lay hold of twigs, fairl}'- rain-proof, drying 

 quickly, keeping out the wind, abounding 

 in pockets? Burberrys first supplied such 

 — casting back to an old spelling and mis- 

 applying an old word for their 'gabardine'. 

 When it loses the duck's-back quality, (as 

 arrives in the course of time) a dash of 

 boiled linseed-oil on the shoulders gives 

 protection where most needed, and camou- 

 flages the wearer by making his aspect less 

 monotonous. This fabric has the merit 

 that snow does not stick to it, — with yet an- 

 other to be spoken of later. 



It probably wastes two lines of print to 

 observe that an overcoat, at all times, is 

 sheer lumber. In heavy winter tramping 

 you can wear little more than in summer: 

 as to the feet, oil-tanned moccasins with 

 three pairs of socks; a sweater beneath the 

 coat that changes not with the changing 

 seasons; a woollen cap drawing over the 

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