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CHAPTER V. 



WADING. 



Fisliermen are aware tliat not a little depends on the make and 

 material of our waders. Tlie heavy trowsers of yore, with straps and 

 seamy feet, unquestionably <jave rise to a deal of dissatisfaction, from 

 the fact of their liability to injure the constitution. In thick waders, 

 even men skilled from practice are constantly overwhelmed with 

 fatigue, and realise most fully that they are stuffy and far too 

 oppressive for physical endurance. Tliis being the case, it affords 

 me as much pleasure to write, as it will give the angler to read, that a 

 light material, which offers inducements and not obstacles to one and 

 all alike, has been introduced, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, by Mr. H. A. 

 Murton. The crowning feature of this material, which passes under 

 the name of " Murton's 53 T," rests on the fact that it is absolutely 

 devoid of any tendency to create excessive perspiration which, in the 

 past, has often been h fertile source of vexation, and sometimes very 



