150 AMERICAN GAME. 



tolerably, much less to enjoy himself or win renown, let 

 the flocks fly as full and frequent as they will. 



The following dress I have found the best those may 

 sneer who will, but I think, and they will find, when 

 their fortieth year brings crippling rheumatism, that it is 

 wisdom at all times to be as comfortable as one may, and 

 that it is no mark of manhood, but rather of very con- 

 temptible folly, to lie cold and shivering, for the want of 

 a few precautions which may be easily taken, and will 

 make you as much at your ease as may be, in a Dela- 

 ware skiff or Egg-Harbor pig-box. 



First, over your ordinary under-clothes wear a stout 

 pair of Canada-gray cloth trousers ; over these a pair of 

 long worsted stockings, and over these again long pliable 

 Canadian boots. A red flannel shirt, and above that a 

 guernsey, with what waistcoat and shooting-jacket you 

 will, and over all an oil- skin coat, as near as may be of 

 the drab color of the sedge and hassock ; on your head a 

 woolen night-cap, and above it a gray tow hat ; and 

 though your rig may terrify into convulsions a young 

 New Yorker, with ends to his white choker longer than 

 the yard-arms of a first-rate take my word for it, it will 

 not scare Brant, Goose, or Red-Head from your stools, 

 and it will keep you, with the aid of a modicum of 

 cogniac, Jamaica, or Ferintosh, as your taste may incline, 

 cozy and good-natured, while your friend, who is too 

 manly to take counsel, is as cold and as cross as whatever 

 is most frigid and most fiendish. 



