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thinner leather than usual above the foot (where thickness is 
not needed except by those with weak ankles), I get my 
shooting boots down to the weight indicated, without any sacri- 
fice that I have ever been able to discover either on the score 
of ‘water-proofness’ or durability—but. then my bootmaker, 
Moykopf, of the Burlington Arcade, zs an artist. 
The manufacturers of the Over-knee waders are Messrs. 
Anderson, Anderson and Anderson, 37 Queen Victoria Street, 
RC. 
As all waterproof garments are liable to become more or less 
damp from repressed perspiration, they should invariably be 
dried after use, as well to prevent the linings, and, indeed, the 
rubber itself, becoming rotten, as for purposes of health and 
comfort. The best way of drying is to fill the legs and feet of 
the boots, stockings, or trousers, with warm bran, oats, or 
barley, which should be shaken out as soon as it begins to cool (if 
this precaution is not attended to the moisture which has been 
absorbed begins at once to re-evaporate). When the waders 
have been emptied of their drying contents they should be 
turned inside out and hung up, foot upwards. In the case of 
the combined rubber and leather boots noticed, this (of 
course) cannot be accomplished, and many fishermen keep the 
‘feet-part’ always filled with carefully dried grain or sawdust, 
or on boot-trees, with the object of swelling or keeping them 
in shape, and to avoid shrinking. 
Whenever waders are used, thick warm woollen stockings, 
and leggings also if possible, should be worn inside. I used 
always to wear and recommend for this and other sporting 
purposes the all-wool garments made by the well-known Jaéger 
Company, but my patience has recently given way before the 
combined inconveniences of excessive shrinking —which I 
suppose in their otherwise excellent manufacture is inevitable 
—and the inconvenient forms in which they seem determined 
to thrust an essentially good idea down the public throat. 
Shirts doubled over the chest rather than (if anywhere) over 
the back, and buttoning up at the side instead of in the front 
