150 AMERICAN GAME. 
tolerably, much less to enjoy himself or win renown, let 
the flocks fly as full and frequent as they will. 
The following dress I have found the best—those may 
sneer who will, but I think, and they will find, when 
their fortieth year brings crippling rheumatism, that itis 
wisdom at all times to be as comfortable as one may, and 
that it is no mark of manhood, but rather of very ‘con- 
temptible folly, to lie cold and shivering, for the want of 
a few precautions which may be easily taken, and will 
make you as much at your ease as may be, in a Dela- 
ware skiff or Egg-Harbor pig-box. 
First, over your ordinary under-clothes wear a stout 
pair of Canada-gray cloth trousers; over these a pair of 
long worsted stockings, and over these again long pliable 
Canadian boots. A red flannel shirt, and above that a 
guernsey, with what waistcoat and shooting-jacket you 
will, and over all an oil-skin coat, as near as may be of 
the drab color of the sedge and hassock ; on your head a 
woolen night-cap, and above it a gray tow hat; and— 
though your rig may terrify into convulsions a young 
New Yorker, with ends to his white choker longer than 
the yard-arms of a first-rate—take my word for it, it will 
not scare Brant, Goose, or Red-Head from your stools, 
and it will keep ‘you , with the aid of a modicum of 
cogniac, Jamaica, or Ferintosh, as your taste may incline, 
cozy and good-natured, while your friend, who is too 
manly to take counsel, is as cold and as cross as whatever 
is most frigid and most fiendish. 
