CHAPTER XIV. 



FISHING GEAR AND OTHER SMALL BEER. 

 "The apparel oft proclaims the man.''— Shakspere. 



J UST a few short words on the clothes most convenient 

 to wear fishing in India will add to the comfort of those 

 that will be troubled to read them. 



As you have already seen, you will have to do a good 

 deal of wading if you are at all keen about sport. But 

 on no account get waterproof wading boots. First rate 

 things though they are in England, they are not at all 

 wanted in India. I doubt if they would keep good in 

 India. I am quite sure they would be unbearably hot 

 in this climate, and, much though I have waded, I never 

 felt the want of any such protection in India; for the 

 water is not perishingly cold, as in England, but comfort- 

 ably tepid, so that, if you make a rule never to be 

 tempted to go in over the fork, you will not be the worse 

 for it. If you walk in deeper, and stand in the water 

 up to your stomach and vitals, I will not be responsible 

 for congestion of the liver, dysentery, and all the rest 

 of it. 



Kemembering that you will be often in water up to 

 the fork, shorten your coat tails accordingly, and have 

 your pockets high and dry, or you will find after landing 



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