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tvveen pillows, and at night in your bed, 

 till they begin to hatch. 



In warming the pillows you may place 

 them as near the fire, and heat them as 

 quick as you pleafe, and let them be 

 heated thoroughly ; but take care, before 

 you place your boxes between them, that 

 they may cool fo as to be no hotter than 

 your hand when thoroughly heated in your 

 bofom, and to preferve this heat, the longer 

 in the pillows, you may wrap round them 

 a quilt or coverlet, the thicker it is, the 

 better, and this may be heated as hot as 

 you pleafe, it cannot injure the worms 

 through the pillows. 



Where large quantities of eggs are to be 

 hatched, feveral pillows may lie upon one 

 another, and be faflened by a couple of 

 firings, tying them acrofs, and may then 

 be placed at fuch a didance from the fire 

 as that the heat exceed not that of the hu- 

 man fkin J this diftance you may find by 

 warming your hand in your bofom, and 

 approaching it towards the fire till you 

 juft begin to feel the warmth, here fix the 

 flack of pillows with the boxes, and place 

 a quilt or fuch like behind them, to hinder 

 the back from cooling too fail, and thus 

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