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-fchem thoroughly waterproof, will be required 

 — the skirts to be made so short as barely to 

 cover the foot, and so spare as to fit like 

 glove, without fold or wrinkle. If a hunting- 

 habit be properly cut it will require no shotting, 

 which will be an advantage to your horse 

 in diminishing the weight which he would 

 otherwise have to carry. An elastic band 

 nicely placed upon the inside in position to 

 catch around the toe of the right foot will be 

 sufficient to answer alljpurposes. You cannot 

 do better, to procure an article such as I 

 describe, than entrust your order to Wolmer- 

 shausen (whom I believe I have already 

 named in a former chapter), corner of Curzon 

 Street, Mayfair, where you will not fail to find 

 your instructions intelligently carried out. 

 This firm has a speciality for skirt-cutfcing, — 

 is, indeed, unapproachable in this particular 

 branch, of what is in reality an aet ; and even 

 in these daj^'S of eager competition the old- 

 estabHshed house suffers from no rivahy, 

 and holds its own in the widely-contested 

 field. 



A very neatly-made waterproof jacket will 



