WADERS AND WADING. 



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CORDING'S LIFE-BELT WADING TROUSERS. 



One further hint : the higher the trousers come up the better. 

 Neither the ordinary wading trousers, nor stockings, however 

 (nor their equivalent in leather boots), fulfil adequately a need 

 which I have constantly experienced myself, and which I 

 suppose, therefore, other fishermen have also felt : namely, a 

 nether garment, that one can ' paddle about with ' in wet 

 weather, wet grass, and (if occasion requires) do a little extem- 

 pore wading in, without encumbering one's movements with 

 the ordinary waders or boots, which, whatever their other 



