for fflSSStttofotol Roofing, 



IF you attempt to go out for wildfowl, without being 

 properly clothed, you will not only frighten them away, 

 and kill nothing, but you will experience those very 

 miseries which are merely imaginary with persons who 

 do not understand this pursuit. How many do we see, 

 who fancy that they would catch their death by cold if 

 they went out at night for a few hours in a punt : and 

 yet these very people are in the habit of doing what is 

 ten times more dangerous : walking in a wet day from 

 the west end of the town to the city, with thin boots, 

 without galoches, and in cotton stockings ; and there, 

 perhaps, with damp feet, sitting on business for a whole 

 morning ! 



Having mentioned that water boots should, even for 

 walking, be worn with an extra pair of coarse yarn 

 stockings, I should advise those, who go out in cold 

 nights, to have their boots made easy enough to admit, 

 instead of these, a pair of the thickest wads. They 

 should reach nearly up to the middle. This will be 

 found quite enough, provided the under stockings are 

 of the warmest quality. Such, for instance, as the 

 " Sanquhar hose," that are sold (and, I believe, were 

 first introduced from Scotland to London) by Mr. 

 Otley, in Sidney's Alley. Having put on the boots, 



