100 BOAT-DRESS FOR BAD WEATHER. [PART I. 
sufficiently large to enable you to put the skirts 
of your shooting-coat bodily into them, by which 
means, while you have access to your upper pock- 
ets, the lower ones will be kept dry and you will 
be perfectly impermeable to wet, there being no- 
thing about you to catch the rain. 
The overalls are most useful at all times in 
sea-fishing, as they afford complete protection fore 
and aft, and enable you to haul in line and fish 
without getting your knees wet, as well as to sit 
down in comfort wherever you please, no matter 
what the state of the boat may be. 
Of course it does not much matter for boat- 
work what the length of the cape is. I mention 
thirty inches, because I have found such a one 
most useful on shore, as well as on the-water, for 
shooting of all kinds, or other fishing. If you have 
no one at hand to carry it when not wanted, its 
weight is but little felt in your inner coat-pocket, 
or, what is better, it can be rolled up and fastened 
by a couple of little straps or strings to the strap 
of your shot-bag or fishing-basket, in which posi- 
tion you are really scarcely sensible of its presence. 
It will save you many a wet jacket, and the annoy- 
ance of getting all the things in your pockets 
drenched and perhaps spoiled. I scarcely know 
