THE MASTER— MONTH, OCTOBER 3 



breeches — boots and breeches well made, and well 

 put on, indispensable accompaniments for the well- 

 looking of both. We could write a chapter on boots, 

 but as we purpose passing the field in review, we will 

 glance at their various characters as the wearers come 

 before us. Spurs, too, are an eloquent subject for 

 dissertation. If any one would collect the hats, 

 gloves, whips, boots, and spurs of a field, placing 



each set by themselves, we would undertake to 

 appropriate them to the station in life of the re- 

 spective parties. These, too, however, for the 

 present, we shall "pass," as the auctioneers say, 

 simply observing that our Master's gloves are doe- 

 skin, his whip a lapped whalebone one, with a hammer 

 head, his persuaders of the Jersey pattern, with silver 

 studs and buckles. The well polished strap-ends 

 come well over the buckles, and the boots altogether 



