GERMAN SPORTSMEN 229 



towards theirs In at least one, and this I look 

 upon as too important a matter to pass over 

 in silence. 



In that article I remarked, and truly, that 

 **the days of curly horns and hunting-knives 

 in Germany are gone " ; and went on to say 

 that '*in his dress the German sportsman 

 would hardly be remarked at an English 

 shoot, except perhaps for the cut of his 

 waiters." Now this Is true of North Ger- 

 many ; but in the South and in Austria it is 

 not so. There the sportsman sticks to a 

 sort of grey-green tunic with horn buttons, 

 bright green facings, and a stand-up collar, 

 and never fails to ornament his pudding- 

 dish-shaped hat with a bunch of black- 

 cock's feathers, or a tuft of hair from the 

 chamois' withers. Very often a brooch 

 set with fox's or stag's teeth secures this. 



