Boots 



ARE absolutely necessary for those who shoot in wet 

 places, or wait, in cold nights, for wildfowl ; and, if 

 good, will effectually repel the water for a long time. 



Water boots, that I have always found to answer, are 

 made (for thirty shillings a pair), by a Mr. Cox, in 

 Poole, whose principal business is their exportation to 

 Newfoundland. Mr. Short, of East Yarmouth, is also 

 a particularly good maker of these boots, and is so 

 clever in other parts of his business, that he is in the 

 habit of sending boots and shoes to gentlemen above a 

 hundred miles on the other side of London. Some of 

 the fen sportsmen call him the " Emperor of the boot- 

 makers." 



All boots, for going in the wet, answer much better 

 if kept at least half a year before they are worn; and 

 they should afterwards never be suffered to get too hard. 

 Water boots should be invariably worn over an extra 

 pair of coarse yarn stockings, without which you do not 

 give them a fair trial. 



So far from being hard to the feet, they are the 

 softest possible wear, and may be made very light. 

 They should always be made to draw, when required, 

 very far above the knees, in order to protect them from 

 cold or wet. Nothing, by the way, would answer so 



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