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arbours, you muft take and place near the 

 twigs, provided they are ready to fpin, and 

 their wandering from their food is a fign 

 that they are ready j you need not fear 

 hurting them by taking them in your hands, 

 only let thefe be clean, efpecially from to- 

 bacco, onions, and fuch like^ and you 

 may take as many at once as can lie in your 

 hollow'd hand without fqueezing ; but ob- 

 ferve to take them up with whatever fticks 

 to their claws, without tearing it away, 

 for fear of blunting the claws by which 

 they are now to climb. Wooden fhovels, 

 which have a fmooth furface, on which 

 they cannot lay hold with their claws, are 

 the fitteft to convey them from one place 

 to another, becaufe they can readily be 

 taken off them without ufmg force. 



As a great many of the worms will con- 

 tinue to eat for fome time after others have 

 begun to fpin, you muft conflantly fupply 

 them with the beil kind of leaves, fprink- 

 ling them very thin over them, and feed- 

 ing them often, and this even at night jufb 

 before you go to bed, and as early as you 

 can in the morning j for their quantity of 

 filk, and their ilrength and activity in fpin- 

 ning it, depends now upon their being 



properly 



