364 Or tHE SILK-WORM. 
You then proceed, as before, with other two or three 
handsful of cocons; you make a new battiie; you purge 
them, and continue to wind the fame number of cocons 
or their equivalent, and fo to the end. 
As I faid above, your windfter muit always have a bowl, 
of cold water by her, to {fprinkle the bar, to cool her fin- 
gers every time fhe dips them in the hot water, and to 
pour into her bafon when neceflary, that is, when her wa- 
ter begins to boil. You muft be very careful to twift your 
threads a fufficient number of times, about twenty-five, 
otherwife your filk remains flat, inftead of being round 
and full; befides when the filk is not well croffed it never 
can be clean, becaufe a gout or nub that comes from a 
cocon will pafs through a {mall number of thefe twifts, 
though a greater will ftop it. Your thread then breaks 
and you pafs what foulnefs there may be in the middle of 
your reel, between the two hanks, which ferves for a head 
band to tie them. 
You muft mind your water be juft in a proper degree 
of heat. When it is too hot the thread is dead and has 
no body ; when it is too cold, the ends which form the 
thread do not join well, and form a harfh ill-qualified filk, 
You muft change the water in your bafon four times a 
day, for your dupions and choquette, and twice only for 
good cocons when you wind fine filk, but if you wind 
coarfe filk it is neceflary to change it three or four times. 
For if you was not to change the water the filk would 
not be fo bright and glofly, becaufe the worm contained 
in the cocons foul it very confiderably. You mutt endea- 
vour as much as poflible to wind with clear water, for if 
there are too many worms in it, your filk is covered with 
a kind of duft, which attraéts the moth and deftroys 
your filk, 
You may wind your filk of what fize you pleafe, from 
one cocon to a thoufand; but it is difficult to wind more 
than thirty ina thread. The nicety, and that in which 
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