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At night (and every real sportsman has 

 experience of nights in very rough quarters) 

 take it off, lay it lengthwise over your legs, 

 tuck in well, and you have a warm blanket. 

 Moreover, it forms a soft dry seat, and there 

 is a lot of sitting about, sometimes very 

 hard, and sometimes disagreeably soft, in 

 stalking. Last, but not least, it practically 

 never wears out. But whether kilt or 

 comfortable breeches, which do not chafe 

 or strain you anywhere, are preferred, I 

 equally recommend as a leg -covering a 

 footless stocking coming down two or three 

 inches outside the top edge of the boot. 

 With this a pair of socks makes a change ; 

 if you wear a long stocking, you must carry 

 the whole thing twice, or be without a 

 change. Besides, you must wear anklets or 

 some form of leggings, or else earth, small 



