130 THE CULTURE 



time natural tokens of a natural and per!^ 

 odical diforder, which though it is by fome 

 called a lleep, yet is rather a fort of lethar- 

 gick fever. 



In about five or fix days after hatching, 

 the worms will begin to fall into their firft 

 ficknefsj which precedes their moulting. 

 When therefore you perceive their heads to 

 fwell, and that they do not eat fo heartily 

 as before, give them their leaves more fpa- 

 ringly, adjufling the quantity of their food 

 fo as that it fliall be eaten before next meal, 

 and when you perceive them all to lie inac- 

 tive, with their heads erected, and that they 

 no longer attempt to eat, you fliould then 

 defifl: from giving them any more leaves, 

 and by no means dilfurb or move them 

 either now or in any of their moults, but 

 let them lie quiet and warm, by fliutting 

 the drawers or boxes where they lie, 

 efpecially if the weather is cold, during 

 their tvv^o firfl moults. 



You will often perceive fome worms 

 grow fick a . little before the reft, though 

 they were all hatched together, on accouni 

 of fome inequality in their ftrength or con- 

 ftitution; or becaufe, though they were 

 all taken out of the hatching boxes toge- 

 ther. 



