And yet, instead of thus cherishing blood by what has especially been created by Nature to warm blood, we repair to the cold ground for succour! From its produce we pick cotton and , nourished by a circulation of sap; in short, from a mixture of and ignorance which appear to be as inexcusable as they are unaccountable, we run for protection to the wrong kingdom, to commit the error of clothing ourselves as vegetables instead of as animals!
 
If a man has had nothing to do in this world but, with a crown on his head and with his knees closed, to sit very still on a throne,—with a coronet balanced on91 his head, to walk very gently from one carpeted room to another,—or in very tight boots to stand at his fellow creatures as, at different rates, they pass in procession before his club window, he may live, die, and be screwed up in his without ever discovering the mistake he has committed; but, on the other hand, if he has only for a few years been exposed to hard work, and even without severe labour to the of climate, he very soon finds out that he is suffering from the uncongenial clothing in which he has been existing. Indeed, our soldiers and sailors on active service, whether within the tropics or the polar regions; our labourers, especially those who work underground in mines; in fact all classes of people, sooner or later, are not only by medical men , but by the aches and pains of Caliban, with all the ills which flesh is heir to when it has been suddenly chilled, are forced to discard vegetable covering, in order to nestle, for the remainder of their lives, in woollen clothing next to their skin; and when a man has lived to make this important discovery, he keenly feels that although his friend and neighbour would be grievously out of fashion were he to walk about the world with his cotton drawers over his woollen trousers, and with his Irish- shirt outside his coat, yet that it would be less insane and more reasonable for him to do so92 than to exist, as is still the general custom of the community, in vegetable garments, covered on the outside with woollen clothing. In fact, it is undeniable that a sinner doing in a hair shirt enjoys better health than a saint in a lawn one.
 
 Now in the hunting field, experience, after a desperate struggle, has at last demonstrated the advantages of wool; and, accordingly, for some years it has been, and is, the habit and the fashion of most men, especially "the fast ones," to discard linen, and in lieu thereof to ride in shirts—pink, red, , or many coloured—and in drawers either from the back of a lamb or a sheep. The coats are lined throughout backs and sleeves with flannel; and as the waistcoats have also93 sleeves of the same material, the rider of the present day is not only warmed, but his clothing, from being divided into many layers, is capable of keeping out a moderate shower of several hours' duration.
 
To provide, however, against a soaking day, it is usual to put on woollen drawers of extra thickness; but as it is impossible to how long it will rain—for when it pours early in the morning, it not unusually becomes bright at eleven, and versâ—this precaution often proves not only unnecessary, but throughout the whole day a very unpleasant incumbrance, which, after all, a great deal more of the propria persona than is required.
 
A better plan, or "dodge," therefore, when the morning threatens to turn into a day, is to place over the thin drawers on the surface only of each , (which, from its position in riding, and from the dripping from the brim of the hat, invariably becomes wet, while all the rest of the drawers remain dry), a piece of serge or saddler's flannel, which will keep out the rain for a long time; which, when wet, can in a moment be drawn out, dried at any little inn, farm, or cottage fire, and then replaced; and which, if, from the cessation of the rain, it be not needed, instead of heating the owner, can be rolled up and transferred into o............