CHAPTER V. 



COSTUME AND EQUIPMENT. 



There is possibly no matter connected with hunting 

 in which the novice so often faiJs as in dress and equip- 

 ment, and, though things have improved in this respect 

 during the last five-and-twenty years — owing, probably 

 to the fact that people go about more than they did, 

 and that the average tailor is a little broader-minded, 

 as regards hunting clothes, than he used to be — one 

 still occasionally sees veritable figures of fun among the 

 novice class. And, first of all, a very strong point 

 must be made of neatness. Every boy and girl, and 

 every man and woman, who hunts should be as neat 

 as a pin all over. No buckles or straps should be 

 allowed to fly out either from saddle, breastplate, or 

 bridle, and no loose strings or tags should be visible 

 about one's person. And, to begin with the children, 

 some of whom are endowed with the bump of neatness, 

 wiiile others are equally untidy. What the children 

 must first of all thoroughly understand is, that huntings 

 from the earliest days of childhood, demands the closest 

 attention in the matters of toilette and equipment. 

 Children who are going to begin hunting must never 

 think that because they are about to spend the day 



