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useful, as there the exertion is confined to casting, and showers must be 

 defied. It would be bad, too, to have to wait to dry without keeping 

 up the heat of the body by exercise. The danger of an unporous 

 waterproof is in putting it on over slightly moist clothes, and so driving 

 the damp in, and also in wearing it, while walking, and preventing 

 necessary exhalation from the body. Many people have the tweeds which 



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they wear for fishing slightly waterproofed without interfering with 

 the ventilating quality of the material ; but there is no doubt that the 

 natural wet-resisting element in the wool of the sheep is the best, and 

 homespuns undyed, and, as far as possible, in their oily condition, are 

 the safest wear when exercise has to be taken. It should be remembered 



