CHAPTEK XXVII, 



MISCELLANEOUS HINTS. 



USE OF GLOVES. 



All those Sportsmen whose occupation or profession makes 

 it desirable that they should have white and smooth hands, 

 and there are but few gentlemen whose employments do not 

 require this, they ought, ex necessitate renim^ 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 immemorial 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 certain sign 

 of nobility ; or, at all events, regarded as one of the most 

 striking features or tests of gentle breeding, education, and re- 

 finement. This feeling, to a certain extent, exists even in our 

 country, and every intelligent Sportsman, therefore, will under- 

 stand our motives for calling his attention to that which may be 

 considered, by the mass, a very trite and silly matter. How- 



