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For training or driving to the meet a suitable 

 great-coat (a box-cloth one costing about ^10 is 

 nicest, and will last a life-time) and two white cotton 

 aprons (to keep the breeches clean) must be added 

 to the above. 



The next thing is, where to get it all ? The 

 answer is, at any good and zvell-knoivn sporting 

 tailors and boot-makers, Mark the word "sport- 

 ing," for it's no use asking an ordinary tailor, not 

 even the very best, to make hunting clothes. He 

 will make you a perfectly-fitting walking coat, no 

 doubt, but directly you get on a horse it will seem 

 to be thrown all out of gear, will have no "spring," 

 in fact, while his breeches will be worse. It is the 

 same with the boots, and they will be difficult to 

 put on, to get off, and uncomfortable to wear, 

 besides they won't be made right. 



One word about going to the well-known and 

 fashionable tailor for the first time : unless he thinks 

 you are likely to be a large customer, the odds are 

 that you do not get his best workmen put on to 

 your things, and when trying them on you will 

 have to show that you mean to have the best fit 

 that the firm can produce. 



"Why, dash it all, the idiot who writes all this 

 must be a universal outfitter himself" — the reader 

 has probably said long before this. Well, he isn't, 

 but is only jotting down what experience has shown 

 him may be useful to the ingenuous youth about to 

 become a votary and a pupil of Diana. 



Just two more remarks, and we have done with 



