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violent motion, or who naight othervvife 

 endanger them by crufliing or fqueefing 

 them too hard, this they do for the fpac» 

 of two or three days, or until they fuipe6l 

 that the eggs are within a little of hatch- 

 ing ; which, if the eggs were not too for- 

 ward before, will be in the fpace of three 

 days and nights j at night the bags are 

 taken into bed with them, but care mufl 

 be taken not to crufh them, and therefore 

 it would be well, having firft warmed the 

 bolder thoroughly as warm as the fkin, 

 and taken care that the outfide be not hot- 

 ter than that, to lay the bags under it, 

 placing over them a fmall box or drawer, 

 fufficient to hinder them from being crufli- 

 ed, with its bottom uppermoft. 



When the eggs are ready to hatch, which 

 will be about the end of the third day, 

 it is inconvenient any longer to keep them 

 in the bags, becaufe the worms which 

 hatch'd v/ould be fqueezed and hurt as they 

 , came out j and therefore each parcel mufl 

 now be gently poured out into a fliallow 

 box, of fuch a breadth as that the eggs 

 fhall not lie on the bottom above a quarter 

 'of an inch thick, fo that the worms, as 

 they hatch, may be able to make their way 



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