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pair of worsted wristbands (sold by the name of " muf- 

 fatees") should be worn with cloth gloves, and, over 

 gloves and all, a large and long pair of double swanskin 

 cuffs, which are as warm as any muff, and may be drawn, 

 or shook, off in an instant, when you want your right 

 hand for the trigger. 



Which of the two colours for the jacket and cap is to 

 be used will depend on whether you have sun or moon ; 

 on which occasions you and your boat should appear in 

 a light drab, or you will occasionally shine so much, as 

 to be quite conspicuous. But at all other times abluish 

 white is indisputably the best colour; except in star- 

 light or snow. Then you cannot possibly be too white ; 

 insomuch, that a clean linen frock and cap might take 

 you forty yards nearer to your birds than even flannel 

 or swanskin. All further covering, such as a cloak, 

 white hat, &c., may be at your own option, as you 

 would, of course, " douse" it when you began to " work 

 to birds ;" and, indeed, the greater part of that before- 

 mentioned would be too warm, except for one who had 

 nothing to do but attend his gun. 



I shall now add one recipe for a surtout, by way of a 

 dread-nought, which, as wet weather has of late years 

 been " so much in fashion," will, I trust, be doing 

 service, not only to gunners, but to every class of the 

 community, except the tailors, who might lose business 

 by it, and their satellites the dandies, who would faint 

 at the sight of it. It is but fair that the man who 

 gave me the recipe should be immortalized by its intro- 

 duction, and not I, who am the mere copyist. I got 

 it at Winterton, in Norfolk, from the factotum of all 

 the wet work, one Larry Rogers, who calls it his 

 " Sou'wester,' 9 and gets it all for nine shillings. In 



