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ordinary outside coat-pocket. There must be no chance 

 of any hitch, or of the wearer having to fumble about 

 lo find what he requires when he is in a hurry to load 

 quickly ; and all cloth used for shooting purposes 

 should be waterproofed by being soaked in sugar-of- 

 lead, alum, and zinc, or some such preparation, so that, 

 while the rain is prevented from entering, the ventila- 

 tion is not suppressed. 



Nothinof seems to induce rheumatism so much as the 

 use of indiarubber coats, or indiarubber put into cloth 

 in any shape or form. Its use is fatal when taking 

 strong exercise. Damp is driven into the very bones 

 themselves by that most terrible of all inventions, the 

 mackintosh. I think I may with good reason con- 

 gratulate myself on having shown up the evils of 

 wearing garments waterproofed with indiarubber in the 

 sporting papers, and thus, I hope and trust, been the 

 means of saving some few people from contracting 

 rheumatism and the many other complaints which the 

 use of such abominations is so liable to cause. Even 

 when using waders for fishing, it is necessary to turn 

 them down frequently, in order to avoid the chance of 

 contracting sciatica. Fishing is by no means such 

 violent exertion as walking ; yet on the coldest spring 

 day, after half an hour's wading, one's legs get quite 

 wet, not with the water, but with the perspiration 

 which has been checked. (It is ever necessary, when 

 driving home after fishing in waders, to be careful to 

 either make a complete change of one's entire clothing, 

 if such is practicable, or to keep one's waders on and 

 add to one's clothing as much as possible by means of 

 overcoats, rugs, etc. ; and this is equally incumbent 

 during summer w^eather as in the spring. — Ed.) 



