little about the fantastic-looking being. Of course, there is very much
more to be known, but if you remember what I say, it will give you some
idea of a diver's outfit that may linger in your mind, to be added to as
you grow older.

First, then, close to his skin are warm woollen garments, sometimes two
or even three sets of them. If the weather is cold, he may have on two
or three pairs of warm stockings. How would you like being bundled up in
that way? Yet that is only the beginning.

Close to his head is a woollen cap coming down over his ears. Thick
shoulder-pads keep his outside suit from grazing or hurting, and it may
be that other pads are about his body. He next goes into an outside suit
of India rubber, covered both inside and outside with a tanned twill
which is water-proof, and the rubber itself has been treated in a way to
make it very hard and lasting. There is a double collar about the neck,
of tough, sheet rubber, and one is to draw well up about the neck.

He must have assistance in getting into these rigid clothes, for it is
hard working the arms into the stiff sleeves, and forcing the hands
through cuffs which are made to expand or let out as they are drawn on,
then close tight in some odd way with rubber rings and joints at the
wrist, making the sleeves perfectly air tight.

Great care is taken in dressing the diver. Everything must fit
perfectly, every screw must be properly wound in, every strap and buckle
made fast, or the poor diver may be in great danger. His breastplate of
copper is fastened on with metal clasps or bolts. A fixture at his back
steadies the weights both back and front, weighing forty pounds each.
These weights, it must be, are in some way supported by the ropes with