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the head being opened with a necdle-fcrevv drawing a fpring 

 towards them ; the comb being made but after an ufual 

 form carried in one's pocket. 



LXXXII. A Knife, Spoon, or Fork Conveyance. 

 A knife, fpoon, or fork, in an ufual portable cafe, may 

 have the like conveyances in their handles. 



LXXXIII. A R /ping Mill. 

 A rafping-mill for hartfhorn, whereby a child may do the 

 work of half a dozen men, commonly taken up with that 

 work. 



LXXXIV. An Arithmetical Injlrument. 



An inftrumenl whereby perfons ignorant in arithmetic 

 may perfectly obferve numerations and fubiiractions of art 

 fums and fractions. 



LXXXV. An untoothfome Pear. 



A little ball, made in the (hape of plum or pear, being 

 dextroufly conveyed or forced into a body's mouth, mall 

 prefently (hoot forth fuch and fo many b-ilts of each fide and 

 at both ends, as without the owner's key can neither be 

 opened or filed off, being made of tempered fleel, and as 

 efFe&ually locked as an iron cheft. 



LXXXVI. An imprifoning Chair. 



A chair made a- la-mode, and yet a ftranger being per- 

 fuaded to fit down in it, (hall have immediately his arms and 

 thighs locked up beyond his own power to loofen them. 

 LXXXVII. A Candle-mold. 



A brafs mold to caft candles, in which a man may make 

 500 dozen in a day, and add an ingredient to the tallow 

 which will make it cheaper, and yet fo that the candles fhall 

 look whiter and laft longer. 



LXXXVI 1 1. A Brazen Head. 



How to make a brazen or ftone head in the midfl of a 

 great field or garden, fo artificial and natural, that though a 

 man fpeak never fo foftly, and even whifpers into the ear 

 thereof, it will prefently open its mouth, and refolve the 

 queftion in French, Latin, Welfh, Irifli, or Englifh, in good 

 terms uttering it out of his mouth, and then fhut it until the 

 next queftion be afked. 



LXXXiX, Vrimero Gloves. 



White (ilk knotted in the fingers of a pair of white gloves, 

 and fo contrived without fufpicion, that playing at primero 

 at cards, one may, without clogging his memory, keep reck- 

 oning of all fixes, fevens, and aces, which he hath difcarded. 



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