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thinner leather than usual above the foot (where thickness is 

 not needed except by those with weak ankles), I get my 

 shooting boots down to the weight indicated, without any sacri- 

 fice that I have ever been able to discover either on the score 

 of ' water-proofness ' or durability — but then my bootmaker, 

 Moykopf, of the Burlington Arcade, is an artist. 



The manufacturers of the Over-knee waders are Messrs. 

 Anderson, Anderson and Anderson, 37 Queen Victoria Street, 

 E.G. 



As all waterproof garments are liable to become more or less 

 damp from repressed perspiration, they should invariably be 

 dried after use, as well to prevent the linings, and, indeed, the 

 rubber itself, becoming rotten, as for purposes of health and 

 comfort. The best way of drying is to fill the legs and feet of 

 the boots, stockings, or trousers, with warm bran, oats, or 

 barley, which should be shaken out as soon as it begins to cool (if 

 this precaution is not attended to the moisture which has been 

 absorbed begins at once to re-evaporate). When the waders 

 have been emptied of their drying contents they should be 

 turned inside out and hung up, foot upwards. In the case of 

 the combined rubber and leather boots noticed, this (of 

 course) cannot be accomplished, and many fishermen keep the 

 * feet-part ' always filled with carefully dried grain or sawdust^ 

 or on boot-trees, with the object of swelling or keeping them 

 in shape, and to avoid shrinking. 



Whenever waders are used, thick warm woollen stockings, 

 and leggings also if possible, should be worn inside. I used 

 always to wear and recommend for this and other sporting 

 purposes the all-wool garments made by the well-known Jaeger 

 Company, but my patience has recently given way before the 

 combined inconveniences of excessive shrinking — which I 

 suppose in their otherwise excellent manufacture is inevitable 

 • — and the inconvenient forms in which they seem determined 

 to thrust an essentially good idea down the public throat. 

 Shirts doubled over the chest rather than (if anywhere) over 

 the back, and buttoning up- at the side instead of in the front 



