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it will probably be said that these suggestions with regard to waders for fishing 

 are all very well ; but that the expense of providing three descriptions for the 

 season would prevent many persons from adopting them. 



For those who are of this opinion, the intermediate felt fishing stockings, 

 water-proofed outside, will be the best to purchase for use for the whole season ; 

 but for those able and willing to incur the outlay, the three pairs of the 

 different kinds recommended will prove advantageous. 



The most expensive outfit we can possibly procure for trout-fishing will 

 not amount to a ruinous amount ; and cheap fishing-tackle being a delusion 

 and a snare, those who obtain everything of the very best quality will never 

 regret having made such an investment. 



I am, c., 



HENRY DOWNES, M.D. 

 The Editor of the Fishing Gazette. 



Of ' Brogues,' to wear over leggings or trousers (of course with 

 a thick worsted sock between) several improved forms have also 

 been introduced, such as the " Test Brogue," manufactured by 

 Messrs. Anderson and Co., of 37, Queen Victoria Street, E.G., 

 in which the nails are clinched into a solid leather sole, built up 

 with specially prepared felt ; or the " Invincible Brogue and Sole," 

 of Messrs. Hardy Brothers, Alnwick, in which square-headed 

 nails are fastened right through the sole and rivetted into copper 

 ' washers/ as shown in the cut, before the sole is sewn to the 

 brogue. The brogue itself is russet-coloured, made of oak-bark 



tanned hide. Needless to point out the advantages of having 

 nails which cannot slip out, or, by piercing the sole, injure the 

 waders inside. Some waders prefer brogues with corrugated 

 india-rubber, or felt soles, as rendering them less likely to slip, 



