84 The American Salmon-fisherman. 



alence will not be exaggerated " the fortieth part of one 

 poor scruple;" and if disappointed, and your precautions 

 are thrown away, it is certainly a most agreeable disap- 

 pointment, over which few tears need be shed. 



Head-nets, to go over the hat and tuck in under the 

 shirt-collar, are to me almost as intolerable as the insects 

 themselves. Everything looks blurred, there is an intol- 

 erable sense of suffocation, and smoking is impossible. 

 The following will be found equally efficient, and de- 

 cidedly more agreeable: 



Sew around the lining on the inside of the hat, a curtain 

 of cotton or linen cloth about ten or twelve inches deep. 

 Cut a hole in the front of the bottomless sack thus formed, 

 so that the face will be exposed from the eyebrow to the 

 chin. Put on the hat, adjust the curtain so that all of the 

 head but the face is covered, tuck the lower edge of the 

 curtain well down under the shirt all around the neck, 

 and tie a handkerchief around the shirt-collar. The 

 flanks and rear are now protected, and the front alone is 

 exposed. Or, should this have been neglected, a defence 

 may be improvised in the following manner, though it is 

 neither as perfect a protection nor as comfortable to the 

 wearer: Hold up a large handkerchief by the corners, so 

 that the upper edge is horizontal. Knot the corners 

 which are held together. Place the bag so formed upon 

 the head so that the knots come over the forehead. Put 

 on the hat, tuck the hanging part under the shirt, and tie 

 around the shirt-collar as before. 



For the hands, provide a pair of old kid-gloves two or 

 three sizes too large, and cut off the fingers. Sew linen 

 gauntlets to these reaching well up toward the elbow, the 

 margin of each of which is provided with an elastic cord 



