text:  A slipper and a dressing-gown are excellent companions agree well together and never give their master a moment's uneasiness; hence their value; similarly a stout high-low and a good leathern legging buttoned well over the ankle beneath and the knee above will carry a man through heather or gorse on foot or on horseback and will prove "marvellous good wear;" they ought to be as indeed they commonly are dear friends to "whoever loves his country