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" The boots (which must be perfectly dry) must be well rubbed with coarse 

 sand-paper all over the bottoms where the soles have to be attached, and two 

 coats of varnish given them in the same manner as the felt, allowing each coat 

 to dry before applying the second. When the second coat is dry, press 

 the felt soles well on the boots. It will not hurt them if he hammers them, 

 so as to get the varnish well pressed together. Now pare round the edges, 

 and he will have a neat and serviceable job. I should like to hear how he 

 succeeds. 



" J. GREGSON, Blackburn. 



" N.B. The above instructions hold good for repairing all kinds of fishing 

 stockings and trousers." 



DRESS. 



The importance, as well to the wader, as to the fly-fisher, 

 float-fisher and troller alike, of wearing pure woollen material, not 

 only next the skin, but in every part of their clothing, can hardly 

 be exaggerated from a hygienic stand-point, to say nothing of the 

 additional comfort which their use gives. Of all such garments 

 the best in my judgment is, by far, the all-wool clothing manu- 

 factured by "Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Clothing Company," which I 

 have long adopted, not only for sporting but for every-day wear. 

 I know of none so perfectly suitable to the requirements of the 

 sportsman, whether with horse, rod or gun, or which so admirably 

 adapts itself to all changes of climate and temperature. Cool in 

 hot weather, warm in cold weather, the effect of the sanitary 

 wool clothing is to maintain a regular and even temperature of 

 the body, with an agreeable and healthy moisture of the skin. 

 The importance of these conditions, having regard to the constant 

 weather-vicissitudes to which the fisher necessarily exposes him- 

 self, cannot be over-rated. They apply equally to the robust 

 and to the weakly and indeed as much (if not more) to women 

 than to men, whilst to those who suffer from lumbago the 

 wader's enemy I speak from experience when I say that the 

 effect is almost magical. In cases of rheumatism, also, I hear on 

 all sides glowing accounts of the benefits derived from Dr. Jaeger's 

 system. Only last night I sat by a well-known sportsman at 



