CHAPTER XXVII. 



MISCELLANEOUS HINTS. 



USE OF GLOVES. 



LL sportsmen whose occupation or pro- 

 fession makes it desirable that they should 

 have white and smooth hands (and there 

 are but few gentlemen whose employments 

 <lo not require this) ought, ex necessitate 

 rerum, to wear gloves when shooting, as 

 nothing, to our eyes, looks more out'ii. if 

 not vulgar, than a coarse, scratched, and 

 scarred hand. Not only from time im- 

 iriemorial 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 special sign of nobility, or, at all events, re- 

 garded as one of the most striking features or tests of gentle 

 breeding, education, and refinement. This feeling, to a certain 

 extent, exists even in our country ; and every intelligent sportsman, 



therefore, will understand our motives for calling his attention 



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