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and the box which contains it. But as 

 air is neceflary for the hatching of eggs, 

 the box flioLild be all over pierced full of 

 fmall holes, and the bag jQiould b^ made 

 of thin filk or lluft: 



The eggs thus inclos'd may be kept in 

 the bofom, or by men in pockets made on 

 the infide of their waflecoats, or in any 

 other way near the warmth of the fkin, 

 without fuch danger of cruftiing as when 

 kept in bags alone j befides, as the eggs 

 fliould not quite fill the box, they may, by 

 turning it foftly round, be fliifted and 

 mix'd fo as to enjoy an equal degree of 

 heat ; and when they are put under your 

 bolfter at night, there will be no fear of 

 injuring them : but, when the eggs are 

 near hatching, they mufl be pour'd into 

 the broad flrallow boxes ; and treated, in all 

 refpecls, as thofe poured out of the bags 

 into fuch boxes. 



Some, without putting them at all into 

 bags, hatch them ficai the beginning be- 

 tween pillows in fhallow boxes, keeping 

 them by day between the warmed pillows, 

 and at night in bed, or under the bolfter 

 in the manner which has been already re- 

 lated. The eggs while in the boxes, may 

 G 3 be 



