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and flrow over them fome mulberry-leaves, 

 fliced into flireds, fo as to cover the whole 

 fuiface ; then iliut the box and lay it in your 

 bed if warm, or between the warmed pil- 

 lows, the heat of which fhould now be 

 rather more moderate than before, for fear 

 of injuring the worms ; the box alfo would 

 be the better for having a few holes in its 

 lid to admit frelh air. 



The worms, as they hatch, will come 

 thro' the holes of the paper and fix upon 

 the leaves, and when you perceive them 

 almofl quite black with worms take off the 

 upper paper, and gently flide the leaves, 

 with the worms which adhere to them, 

 upon the place where you intend to 

 keep them. Or you may with a large 

 pin take up the fibres in parcels, and fo 

 fpread them ; but don't fpread them thin- 

 ner than juft that they may not lie in 

 heaps upon one another. I have pra6lifed 

 an eafier method than either of the fore- 

 going, for fhifting the worms of the pricked 

 paper, which is to hold it inchned in one 

 hand, and, bringing the furface of another 

 peice of paper clofe to the worms and fibres, 

 gently to turn them over, and fo the pricked 

 paper lieing uppermoft may be taken away, 



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