CH. VII.] TO PAIR GLOVES—FISH-TAXIDERMY. 103 
from the extremities of the peaks, a lappet, one 
furnished with a loop, the other with a button, and 
made long enough just to fasten over the head, or 
under the chin, at pleasure, forming in the latter 
position a covering for the ears, which those who 
have, when after deer, lain for hours on the hill- 
side, waiting for the mist to clear off, will readily 
appreciate. It should be made, I need hardly say, 
of some unobtrusive-coloured woollen stuff. 
It is a remarkable fact, that, although you may 
have put by your old gloves in pairs against the 
next shooting-season, you will not unfrequently 
find your stock, when you come to use them, to 
consist almost entirely of left-hand gloves. Whe- 
ther this may arise from the fact that housemaids 
generally clean the grates with the right hand, and 
like to keep that clean also, we need not inquire; 
I would only suggest to any one who may find 
himself with two odd gloves in his pocket, not to 
“cuss and swear,” but just turn one of them inside 
out, when he will have a pair that will do to shoot 
in, at any rate. 
Judging from the miserable failures which con- 
stantly offend the eye, it would appear that the 
art of stuffing fish is one in which it is very 
difficult to attain to a result at all approaching 
