CH. VII.] CAPE—KNICK ERBOCKERS. 101 
anything more aggravating than, when turning 
homewards after your work is done, and you are 
longing for a quiet pipe, to find that your matches 
are all saturated and no light is procurable. While 
actually shooting, the cape will be found surpris- 
ingly little in the way, it being easy to dispose it, 
so that, while your locks are protected, you can 
instantly throw it aside sufficiently to shoot with 
ease. When going up to a point, you can, if you 
please, throw it quite back off the right shoulder. 
The only thing against it, that I know, is that in 
a high wind it is apt to get blown up over your 
head, but this is easily obviated by having a but- 
ton sewn on inside it at the bottom, and a corre- 
sponding button-hole in the middle back-seam of 
your shooting-coat. 
While on the subject of dress, I will just say a 
word as to one or two other points. By far the 
best leg-coverings for walking in an open country 
are, I think, knickerbockers. These are gene- 
rally made to buckle at the knee, so that they 
cannot be worn otherwise. I rather prefer how- 
ever, for grouse-shooting, to have them simply cut 
quite loose, so as to hang about six or eight inches 
below the knee, with strings run through the 
bottoms to tie on the inside, and a slit, also in the 
