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to avoid glaring or bright colours, and,, above all, 

 metal buttons. A dark bottle- green, as ap- 

 proaching nearly to the colour of the earth and 

 foliage of the trees, is to be preferred to any 

 other shade. Any recipe as to keeping the feet 

 dry would be misplaced amongst directions to 

 the keen fisherman ; for the advantages of wading 

 and crossing the stream are so frequently mani- 

 fest, that few young persons can be deterred (by 

 the mere fear of wetting their legs) from endea- 

 vouring to participate in the diversion which the 

 wader will almost constantly command, by being 

 enabled to throw his flies under bushes, and over 

 the most secret retirements of the objects of his 

 amusement. Some persons, it is true, hold out 

 objections to this practice, by bringing to imagi- 

 nary view rheumatism and agues, in their most 

 dismal colouring, as the consequences of such an 

 act ; but whilst the body is in exercise, little is 

 to be apprehended from these objects of terror. 

 Many instances might be brought forward in 

 corroboration of this assertion, in the persons of 



