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brush after the washing and drying process, 

 or your hat will have that unsightly appear- 

 ance of having been ironed, which is so 

 frequently seen in the hunting-field, because 

 gentlemen who are valeted on returning from 

 their sport care nothing about the manage- 

 ment of their gear, but leave it all to the 

 valet, who gives the hat the necessary 

 washing, but is too lazy or too careless to 

 brush it next day, and his master takes it 

 from his hand and puts it on without ever 

 noticing its unsightliness. Sometimes it is 

 the master himself whose clumsy handiwork 

 is to blame ; but be it master or servant, the 

 result is too often the same. 



Should your gloves be thoroughly, or even 

 slightly wetted, stretch them upon a pair of 

 wooden hands kept for the purpose, and if 

 they are the kind which I have recommended 

 to you — I mean the best quahty of double- 

 stitched cream leather — they will be little the 

 worse. 



Having now, I think, exhausted the sub- 

 ject of your clothing, and given you all 

 the friendly hints in my power, I am ready 



