CHAPTER XXVII. 



MISCELLANEOUS HINTS. 

 USE OF GLOVES. 



LL sportsmen whose occupation or pro- 

 fession makes it desirable that they should 

 have white and smooth hands (and there 

 are but few gentlemen whose employments 

 do not require this) ought, ex necessitate 

 rerum, to wear gloves when shooting, as 

 nothing, to our eyes, looks more outre, if 

 not vulgar, than a coarse, scratched, and 

 scarred hand. Not only from time im- 

 memorial with the polished communities of the Old World, but even 

 among the half-civilized inhabitants of other less-favored climes, a 

 small, smooth, and delicate hand was, and is even at the present 

 day, considered a special sign of nobility, or, at all events, re- 

 garded as one of the most striking features or tests of gentle 

 breeding, education, and refinement. This feeling, to a certain 

 extent, exists even in our country ; and every intelligent sportsman, 



therefore, will understand our motives for calling his attention 

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