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evening, and when close on your beast, as over- 

 hanging twigs of bamboo or branches scrape 

 against the hard Elwood hat with a rending 

 sound that can be heard a quarter of a mile off. 

 The coat should be heather mixture in colour, 

 of cotton texture, with a red lining as a protection 

 against the rays of the sun. It is best to get the 

 material and have it made up by the local 

 ' durzie ' according to your requirements. It can 

 be obtained from the Basil Mission, Cannanore, 

 at from ten to twelve annas a yard, from the 

 Elgin Mills, Cawnpore, or from most of the big 

 shops in Rangoon at slightly higher prices. Two 

 coats will be required, with knickerbockers to 

 match. Next to the skin flannel is the only 

 wear, and of all kinds of flannel nothing, in 

 the writer's opinion, comes up to Viyella. It is 

 light, healthy, practically unshrinkable, and 

 washes to a rag. Some men wear an ordinary 

 cotton tennis-shirt with a gauze vest under- 

 neath ; while others discard the gauze vest, 

 and wear the cotton shirt alone. This practice 

 is recommended to anyone desirous of com- 

 mitting suicide within a brief space of time 

 in an unostentatious manner. Others prefer cut- 

 shorts to knickerbockers. These look very work- 

 manlike, and if one does not mind one's knees 

 being more or less scratched by thorns and 

 creepers, and bitten by mosquitoes, there is 

 nothing to be said against their use in dry 



